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System of Nature.
Title:
System of Nature.
Author:
D'Holbach, Baron.
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Physical Description:
1 online resource (237 pages)
Contents:
Table of Contents -- Author's Preface -- Chapter I: Of Nature. -- Chapter II: Of Motion, and its Origin. -- Chapter III: Of Matter: - Of its various Combinations -- Of its diversified Motion -- or, of the Course of Nature. -- Chapter IV: Of the Laws of Motion common to all the Beings of Nature - Of Attraction and Repulsion - Of inert Force - Of Necessity. -- Chapter V: Of Order and Confusion - Of Intelligence - Of Chance. -- Chapter VI: Of Man - Of his Distinction into Moral and Physical - Of his Origin. -- Chapter VII: Of the Soul, and of the Spiritual System. -- Chapter VIII: Of the Intellectual Faculties -- they are all derived from the Faculty of Feeling. -- Chapter IX: Of the Diversity of the Intellectual Faculties -- they depend on Physical Causes, as do their Moral Qualities. The Natural Principles of Society. - Of Morals. - Of Politics. -- Chapter X: The Soul does not derive its Ideas from itself. It has no innate Ideas. -- Chapter XI: Of the System of Man's Free Agency. -- Chapter XII: An Examination of the Opinion which pretends that the System of Fatalism is Dangerous. -- Chapter XIII: Of the Immortality of the Soul, - Of the Doctrine of a future State -- - Of the Fear of Death. -- Chapter XIV: Education, Morals, and the Laws, suffice to restrain Man. - Of the Desire of Immortality. - Of Suicide. -- Chapter XV: Of Man's true Interest, or of the Ideas he forms to himself of Happiness. - Man cannot be Happy without Virtue. -- Chapter XVI: The Errours of Man, upon what constitutes Happiness, the true Source of his Evil. - Remedies that may be applied. -- Chapter XVII: Those Ideas which are true, or founded upon Nature, are the only Remedies for the Evils of Man. - Recapitulation. - Conclusion of the First Part. -- Chapter XVIII: The Origin of Man's Ideas upon the Divinity. -- Chapter XIX: Of Mythology, and Theology. -- Notes.
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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2017. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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