geographical boundaries of, 26;
a classic land, 34;
its geographical and cosmical conditions providentially ordained
for great moral ends, 34, 35; soil of, not favorable to
agriculture, 40--necessitated industry and frugality, 41; the
climate of, 41--its influence on the mental character of the
people, 42.
B.
Bacon, his assertion that the search after final causes had misled
scientific inquirers, 222.
C.
Categories of Aristotle, 395.
Causality, principle of, 189;
assailed by the Materialists, 194--especially by Comte, 203-209;
the intuition of _power_ a fact of immediate consciousness, 204;
consciousness of _effort_ the type of all force, 211;
Aristotle on Causality, 413;
aetiological proof of existence of God, 487-489.
Cause, origin of the idea of, 204, 205.
Causes, Aristotle's classification of, 280, 404, 405.
Chief good of man, Aristotle on, 419, 420.
Cleanthes, his hymn to Jupiter, 452, 453.
Comte, his theory of the origin of religion, 57-65;
his doctrine that all knowledge is confined to material
phenomena, 203; denies all causation, both efficient and final,
203-214.
Conditioned, law of the, 227, 228;
is contradictory, 250;
as a ground of faith, meaningless and void, 251.
Cosmological proof of the existence of God, 489, 490.
Cousin, his theory that religion had its outbirth in the
spontaneous apperceptions
of reason, 78-84;
criticism thereon, 84-86.
Criterion of truth, Plato's search after, 333, 334.
Cudworth, his interpretation of Grecian mythology, 139, 143.
Cuvier, on final causes, 216, 222.
D.
Darwin, his inability to explain the facts of nature without
recognizing design, 221, 222.
Democritus, taught that atoms and the vacuum are the beginning of
all things, 292; an absolute materialist, 293.
Dependence, consciousness of, the foundation of primary religious
emotions, 110-113.
Development, law of mental, 478; three successive stages clearly
marked, in the individual, 478--in the universal mind of
humanity, 479, 480;
(1) in the field of Theistic conceptions, 481-494;
(2) in the department of morals, 495-509;
(3) in the department of religious sentiment, 509-52
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