Feeling, theories which ground all religion on, 70-74;
its inadequacy, 74-78.
Final Causes, impossibility of interpreting nature without
recognizing, 221, 222;
the assumption of final causes a means of discovery, 222, 223;
Cuvier on, 216, 222;
argument of Socrates from, 320-324;
Plato on, 380-382;
Aristotle on, 405, 413, 414;
teleological proof of the existence of God, 490, 491.
Force, the idea of, rejected by Comte, 207.
Forces, all of one type, and that type mind, 211.
Freedom, human, 19;
exists under limitations, 20;
both admitted and denied by Comte, 208, 209;
of Will, as taught by Plato, 386, 387;
admitted by Epicurus, 486.
G.
Geoffrey St. Hilaire, his pretense of not ascribing any intentions
to nature, 216, 217.
Geography and History, relations between, 14;
opposite theories concerning, 15;
theory of Buckle, 16--of Ritter, Guyot, and Coubin, 16;
the relation one of adjustment and harmony, 16.
God, universality of idea of, 89;
Athenians believed in one God, 107, 147, 148;
idea of God a common phenomenon of human intelligence, 168, 169;
the development of this idea dependent on experience conditions,
169-172; the phenomena of the universe demand a God for their
explanation, 172-175: there are principles revealed in
consciousness which necessitate the idea of God, 184-189; proofs
of the existence of God employed by Aristotle, 412-416--by
Socrates, 320-324; views of God entertained by the Stoics, 452,
453; logical proofs of the existence of God developed by Greek
philosophy, 487-494; gradual development of Theistic conception,
481-487.
Gods of Grecian Mythology, how regarded by the philosophers,
151-157; views of Plato regarding them, 383.
Great men, represent the spirit of their age, 20;
the creation of a providence interposing in history, 21.
Greece, its geographical relations favorable to free intercourse
with the great historic nations, 35--to commerce, 36--to the
diffusion of knowledge, 36--and to a high degree of civilization,
36; peculiar configuration of Greece conducive to activity and
freedom, 36-38--and independence, 38; natural scenery, 43--its
influence on imagination and taste, 44.
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