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Existence of God.
Title:
Existence of God.
Author:
Fenelon, Francois.
ISBN:
9781776510320
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Physical Description:
1 online resource (253 pages)
Contents:
Title -- Contents -- Introduction -- Section I - Metaphysical Proofs of the Existence of God Are Not Within Everybody's Reach -- Section II - Moral Proofs of the Existence of God Are Fitted to Every Man's Capacity -- Section III - Why so Few Persons Are Attentive to the Proofs Nature Affords of the Existence of God -- Section IV - All Nature Shows the Existence of Its Maker -- Section V - Noble Comparisons Proving that Nature Shows the Existence of Its Maker First Comparison, Drawn from Homer's "Iliad" -- Section VI - Second Comparison, Drawn from the Sound of Instruments -- Section VII - Third Comparison, Drawn from a Statue -- Section VIII - Fourth Comparison, Drawn from a Picture -- Section IX - A Particular Examination of Nature -- Section X - Of the General Structure of the Universe -- Section XI - Of the Earth -- Section XII - Of Plants -- Section XIII - Of Water -- Section XIV - Of the Air -- Section XV - Of Fire -- Section XVI - Of Heaven -- Section XVII - Of the Sun -- Section XVIII - Of the Stars -- Section XIX - Of Animals, Beasts, Fowl, Birds, Fishes, Reptiles, and Insects -- Section XX - Admirable Order in Which All the Bodies that Make Up the Universe Are Ranged -- Section XXI - Wonders of the Infinitely Little -- Section XXII - Of the Structure or Frame of the Animal -- Section XXIII - Of the Instinct of the Animal -- Section XXIV - Of Food -- Section XXV - Of Sleep -- Section XXVI - Of Generation -- Section XXVII - Though Beasts Commit Some Mistakes, Yet Their Instinct is, in Many Cases, Infallible -- Section XXVIII - It is Impossible Beasts Should Have Souls -- Section XXIX - Sentiments of Some of the Ancients Concerning the Soul and Knowledge of Beasts -- Section XXX - Of Man -- Section XXXI - Of the Structure of Man's Body -- Section XXXII - Of the Skin -- Section XXXIII - Of Veins and Arteries.

Section XXXIV - Of the Bones, and Their Jointing -- Section XXXV - Of the Organs -- Section XXXVI - Of the Inward Parts -- Section XXXVII - Of the Arms and Their Use -- Section XXXVIII - Of the Neck and Head -- Section XXXIX - Of the Forehead and Other Parts of the Face -- Section XL - Of the Tongue and Teeth -- Section XLI - Of the Smell, Taste, and Hearing -- Section XLII - Of the Proportion of Man's Body -- Section XLIII - Of the Soul, Which Alone, Among All Creatures, Thinks and Knows -- Section XLIV - Matter Cannot Think -- Section XLV - Of the Union of the Soul and Body, of Which God Alone Can Be the Author -- Section XLVI - The Soul Has an Absolute Command Over the Body -- Section XLVII - The Power of the Soul Over the Body is Not Only Supreme or Absolute, but Blind at the Same Time -- Section XLVIII - The Sovereignty of the Soul Over the Body Principally Appears in the Images Imprinted in the Brain -- Section XLIX - Two Wonders of the Memory and Brain -- Section L - The Mind of Man is Mixed with Greatness and Weakness Its Greatness Consists in Two Things First, the Mind Has the Id -- Section LI - The Mind Knows the Finite Only by the Idea of the Infinite -- Section LII - Secondly, the Ideas of the Mind Are Universal, Eternal, and Immutable -- Section LIII - Weakness of Man's Mind -- Section LIV - The Ideas of Man Are the Immutable Rules of His Judgment -- Section LV - What Man's Reason Is -- Section LVI - Reason is the Same in All Men, of All Ages and Countries -- Section LVII - Reason in Man is Independent of and Above Him -- Section LVIII - It is the Primitive Truth, that Lights All Minds, by Communicating Itself to Them -- Section LIX - It is by the Light of Primitive Truth a Man Judges Whether What One Says to Him Be True or False -- Section LX - The Superior Reason that Resides in Man is God Himself.

And Whatever Has Been Above Discovered to Be in Man, Are Ev -- Section LXI - New Sensible Notices of the Deity in Man, Drawn from the Knowledge He Has of Unity -- Section LXII - The Idea of the Unity Proves that there Are Immaterial Substances -- And that there is a Being Perfectly One, Who i -- Section LXIII - Dependence and Independence of Man His Dependence Proves the Existence of His Creator -- Section LXIV - Good Will Cannot Proceed but from a Superior Being -- Section LXV - As a Superior Being is the Cause of All the Modifications of Creatures, so it is Impossible for Man's Will to Will -- Section LXVI - Of Man's Liberty -- Section LXVII - Man's Liberty Consists in that His Will by Determining, Modifies Itself -- Section LXVIII - Will May Resist Grace, and Its Liberty is the Foundation of Merit and Demerit -- Section LXIX - A Character of the Deity, Both in the Dependence and Independence of Man -- Section LXX - The Seal and Stamp of the Deity in His Works -- Section LXXI - Objection of the Epicureans, Who Ascribe Everything to Chance, Considered -- Section LXXII - Answer to the Objection of the Epicureans, Who Ascribe All to Chance -- Section LXXIII - Comparison of the World with a Regular House a Continuation of the Answer to the Objection of the Epicureans -- Section LXXIV - Another Objection of the Epicureans Drawn from the Eternal Motion of Atoms -- Section LXXV - Answers to the Objection of the Epicureans Drawn from the Eternal Motion of Atoms -- Section LXXVI - The Epicureans Confound the Works of Art with Those of Nature -- Section LXXVII - The Epicureans Take Whatever They Please for Granted, Without Any Proof -- Section LXXVIII - The Suppositions of the Epicureans Are False and Chimerical -- Section LXXIX - It is Falsely Supposed that Motion is Essential to Bodies.

Section LXXX - The Rules of Motion, Which the Epicureans Suppose Do Not Render it Essential to Bodies -- Section LXXXI - To Give a Satisfactory Account of Motion We Must Recur to the First Mover -- Section LXXXII - No Law of Motion Has Its Foundation in the Essence of the Body -- And Most of Those Laws Are Arbitrary -- Section LXXXIII - The Epicureans Can Draw No Consequence from All Their Suppositions, Although the Same Should Be Granted Them -- Section LXXXIV - Atoms Cannot Make Any Compound by the Motion the Epicureans Assign Them -- Section LXXXV - The Clinamen, Declination, or Sending of Atoms is a Chimerical Notion that Throws the Epicureans into a Gross Co -- Section LXXXVI - Strange Absurdity of the Epicureans, Who Endeavour to Account for the Nature of the Soul by the Declination of -- Section LXXXVII - The Epicureans Cast a Mist Before Their Own Eyes by Endeavouring to Explain the Liberty of Man by the Declinat -- Section LXXXVIII - We Must Necessarily Acknowledge the Hand of a First Cause in the Universe Without Inquiring Why that First Ca -- Section LXXXIX - The Defects of the Universe Compared with Those of a Picture -- Section XC - We Must Necessarily Conclude that there is a First Being that Created the Universe -- Section XCI - Reasons Why Men Do Not Acknowledge God in the Universe, Wherein He Shows Himself to Them, as in a Faithful Glass -- Section XCII - A Prayer to God.
Abstract:
François de Salignac de la Mothe-Fénelon, more commonly known as François Fénelon (1651 - 1715), was a French Roman Catholic theologian, poet and writer. He today is remembered mostly as one of the main advocates of quietism and as the author of The Adventures of Telemachus, a scabrous attack on the French monarchy, first published in 1699. If a great number of men of subtle and penetrating wit have not discovered God with one cast of the eye upon nature...
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