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Contents

  1. Frontmatter
    1. Cover
    2. Title page
    3. Copyright
    4. De auctore
    5. Contents
  2. Cycle I. First and last things
    1. Book 1. Metaphysics
      1. The necessity for metaphysics
      2. The resumption of metaphysical enquiry
      3. The world of fact
      4. Scepticism of the instrument
      5. The classificatory assumption
      6. Empty terms
      7. Negative terms
      8. Logic static and life kinetic
      9. Planes and dialects of thought
      10. Practical conclusions from these considerations
      11. Beliefs
      12. Summary
    2. Book 2. Of Beliefs
      1. My primary act of faith
      2. On using the name of God
      3. Free will and predestination
      4. A picture of the world of men
      5. The problem of motives, the real problem of life
      6. A review of motives
      7. The synthetic motive
      8. The being of mankind
      9. Individuality an interlude
      10. The mystic element
      11. The synthesis
      12. Of personal immortality
      13. A criticism of Christianity
      14. Of other religions
      15. Summary
    3. Book 3. Of General Conduct
      1. Conduct follows from belief
      2. What is good?
      3. Socialism
      4. A criticism of certain forms of socialism
      5. Hate and love
      6. The preliminary social duty
      7. Wrong ways of living
      8. Social parasitism and contemporary injustices
      9. The case of the wife and mother
      10. Associations
      11. Of an organized brotherhood
      12. Concerning new starts and new religions
      13. The idea of the church
      14. Of secession
      15. A dilemma
      16. A comment
      17. War
      18. War and competition
      19. Modern war
      20. Of abstinences and disciplines
      21. On forgetting, and the need of prayer, reading, discussion and worship
      22. Democracy and aristocracy
      23. On debts of honour
      24. The idea of justice
      25. Of love and justice
      26. The weakness of immaturity
      27. Possibility of a new etiquette
      28. Sex
      29. The institution of marriage
      30. Conduct in relation to the thing that is
      31. Conduct towards transgressors
    4. Book 4. Some Personal Things
      1. Personal love and life
      2. The nature of love
      3. The will to love
      4. Love and death
      5. The consolation of failure
      6. The last confession
  3. Cycle II. God the Invisible King
      1. The Cosmogony of Modern Religion
      1. Modern religion has no founder
      2. Modern religion has a finite God
      3. The infinite being is not God
      4. The life force is not God
      5. God is within
      6. The coming of God
      1. Heresies; or the things that God is not
      1. Heresies are misconceptions of God
      2. Heresies of speculation
      3. God is not magic
      4. God is not providence
      5. The heresy of quietism
      6. God does not punish
      7. God and the nursery-maid
      8. The children’s God
      1. The likeness of God
      1. God is courage
      2. God is a person
      3. God is youth
      4. When we say god is love
      1. The religion of atheists
      1. The scientific atheist
      2. Sacrifice implies God
      3. God is an external reality
      4. Another religious materialist
      5. A note on a lecture by professor Gilbert Murray
      6. Religion as ethics
      1. The invisible King
      1. Modern religion, a political religion
      2. The will of God
      3. The crucifix
      4. The primary duties
      5. The increasing kingdom
      6. What is my place in the kingdom?
      7. Adjusting life
      8. The oath of allegiance
      9. The priest and the creed
      10. The universalism of God
      11. God and the love and status of women
      1. Modern ideas of sin and damnation
      1. The biological equivalent of sin
      2. What is damnation?
      3. Sin is not damnation
      4. The sins of the insane
      5. Believe, and you are saved
      1. The idea of a church
      1. The world dawn
      2. Convergent religious movements
      3. Can there be a true church?
      4. Organisations under God
      5. The state is God’s instrument