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CONTENTS OF VOL. II.

ESSAY X.-SUPPLEMENTARY REMARKS ON FREEWILL.

(October, 1879.)

Purpose of the essay to re-state, so as to meet criticisms received, the

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Virtue and self-interest may often be pleasurable motives
Latent thoughts or qualities admitted.....

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ESSAY XII-ETHICS IN ITS BEARING ON THEISM.

(January, 1880.)

The human mind forms various moral judgments

The ideas "virtuous," and " wrong" implied in those judgments are

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These are intued in the individual case, and not as general propositions
From the ideas of freedom and morality we come to recognize a
supreme rule of life from which it is wicked to deviate

This rule is no mere catalogue of truths, but is of the nature of a law
imposed by personal authority

Our perception of this truth not always explicit

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Reason of the contempt of Phenomenists for intuitionist reasoning

Reason why so many Phenomenists are also Antitheists...

Service rendered by M. Ollé-Laprune's "Certitude Morale "

Implicit proofs of religious doctrine more solid aud penetrating than

argument

Certitude whether metaphysical or physical has the same meaning

Influence of "will" on religious certitude, and need for exertion of it in

antitheistic dealing with religious truth

ESSAY XIV. SCIENCE, PRAYER, FREEWILL, AND MIRACLES.

(April, 1867.)

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Objections against religion founded on the fact of phenomenal uniformity 158

Intimate connection of physical science with theology

Phenomenal uniformity in no way disproves God's unintermittent pre-

movement of phenomena

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Physical phenomena taken by themselves rather tell in favour of such

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The same argument holds, in regard to that particular premovement,

Extent to which this doctrine interferes with the strictly scientific

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character of psychology

Miracles, however frequent, in no way affect the foundation of physical

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ESSAY XV.-EXPLICIT AND IMPLICIT THOUGHT.

(October, 1869.)

F. Kleutgen on the non-philosophical knowledge of God, readily attain-

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Theory of some Libertarians on the extent of freewill assailed

Reasons against it: universal testimony of mankind

Secondly, frequency of anti-impulsive effort

Man's self-intimate and continuous sense of freewill

The relation between freewill and morality

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Consideration of the thesis that in order for an act to be mortally sinful

there must be explicit advertence to its sinfulness

The doctrine of "inordination"

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