A.
Absolute creation, 62.
Absolute, Infinite, and Perfect, relation of these terms, 41, 42.
Action at a distance denied by Newton, 214;
by Leibnitz, Faraday, Helmholtz, Thomson, Tait, Maxwell, 214.
Agassiz on species, 164;
on the preparation of the earth for man, 254.
Attraction of gravitation not a primary force, 210-220;
not an essential attribute of matter, 211-213.
Attribute or related essence, 48-52.
Augustine, St., on the days of creation, 150, 151;
his conception of Divine conservation, 176, 177.
B.
Beale, Dr., on distinction between cell-life and soul-life, 163;
on life, 192, 240.
Being or essence, as reality, efficiency, and personality, 42-48.
Bioplasm, or cell-life, 162, 163.
Brooke, Prof., on conservation of energy, 205.
Büchner, Dr., asserts the eternity of matter and force, 24.
C.
Calderwood, Prof., on consciousness of freedom, 382.
Carpenter, Dr., on will as the type of all force, 39, 237;
on distinction between molecular and somatic life, 163, 236;
on the forces of nature as modes of the Divine action, 240.
Catastrophes, common belief in, 100;
sustained by science, 101, 102.
Categories, universal, 41.
Causative principle, the, must be real, efficient, and personal, 44.
Chalmers's, Dr., incautious concession as to the eternity of matter, 86.
Character, the formation of perfect, noble—the highest end, 306,
can only be attained under conditions of freedom, 308,
and through the inspiration of a higher life, 309, 310.
Christian civilization the age of philanthropy, 285-290.
Cicero on a universal and immutable moral law, 379.
Civilization, each epoch of, has had a different theatre, 275;
stages of development in, 277-290.
Clarke, Dr. Samuel, on immediate agency of God in conservation, 178.
Cohn, Dr., on nature, 333.
Coleridge on nature, 325;
on the natural, 369.
Comte on irregular variability in nature, 195, 329.
Conditions of moral government, 371, 372.
Conscience, its nature and authority, 372-377;
its gradual development, 377.
Consciousness, religions, 304, 305, 345;
natural order of its development, 346-349.
Conservation, Biblical doctrine of, 174, 175;
conceptions of the mode of conservation, 176.
Conservation by secondary causes or agencies, 181, 182;
(1) hypothesis of natural law, 187-201;
(2) hypothesis of active force inherent in matter, 202-222;
(3) hypothesis of plastic nature, 222-235.
Conservation of energy not an absolute law, 205, 206;
limited by the law of dissipation of energy, 207;
not fairly stated by Dr. Tyndall in his discussion on prayer, 331, 332;
no evidence that it holds in the realm of vital dynamics and psycho-dynamics, 332;
is not absolute in the realm of physics, 332.
Continuity of the ether, 217.
Correlation between God and man, 344.
Creation, Biblical account of, not designed to teach science, 136-138;
poetic, symbolical, and unchronological, 138-151.
Creation by law, 196.
Creation ex nihilo, how understood by the Christian Fathers, 92;
not discredited by the progress of science, 93.
Creation, its history, 126-171;
a gradual process, 152-155;
cumulative, 156-166;
consecutive, 166-171;
harmonious, 169, 170;
final purpose of creation, 130-133.
Creation, the conception of, 56;
the Biblical conception of, can not be determined on philological grounds, 56-58;
how to be determined, 58-61;
distinction between absolute and architectonic, 61;
an origination de novo, 60, 61;
a voluntary act of God, 63-68;
not determined by any inherent necessity, 64;
not conditioned ab extra, 66.
Cudworth on a plastic nature, 222-225.
D.
Days of the creative week, 145-151.
Defects in nature, supposed, not removed by hypothesis of unconscious intelligence, 232, 233;
this supposition based upon our ignorance of nature as a whole, 233-235.
Descartes, his conception of God, 29.
Dissipation of mechanical energy, 120, 121, 207-209.
Dualism, Oriental, 23.
Duration not identical with time, 77;
nor with eternity, 77;
a quality of dependent existence, 81;
a fact of consciousness, 82.
E.
Earth, secular cooling of the, 105-108;
indications of surface transformations of the, 108, 109.
Earth, the, a school-house for man, 258.
End of moral government, 417-419.
Energy, conservation, transformation, and dissipation of, 118, 119;
defined, 194;
distinction between force and energy, 203;
laws of conservation and transformation limited by the law of dissipation, 207-209;
cases of transformation, 237;
all the forms of energy are transformations of one Omnipresent force, 237.
Eternity an attribute of God, 77, 83, 84.
Ether, hypothesis of the, 113;
a resisting medium, 114, 115;
absolute continuity of the, 217, 218.
Experience can not attain to a universal truth, 190.
Extension a quality of matter, 81;
not a predicate of space, 79;
a percept of sense, 81.
F.
Faraday on the possible and the impossible, 195;
on action at a distance, 214.
Final purpose of creation revealed in Scriptures, 130-133;
not discoverable by science, 234, 245.
Force defined, 203, 236;
the ultimate of all ultimates, according to Spencer, 25;
theory that matter is a phenomenon of force, 123;
the power of God, 123;
distinct from energy, 203;
not inherent in matter, 219, 236;
tendency of modern scientists to hypostatize, 227;
spirit-force the only force, 236, 237, 341;
a metaphysical idea, 340;
the expression of will, 341.
Forces, primary, of nature, 209;
a perpetual stream of power from the Infinite Spirit, 221, 222.
Foreknowledge of God and human freedom, 402-405.
Formation implies origination, 97.
Free self-determining power of the will, 380, 387;
arguments against—(1) Metaphysical or causational, 387, 392;
(2) Psychological, 392-402;
(3) Theological, 402-405;
conceded by Dr. Tyndall, 335.
Freedom of God, absolute, 63.
G.
Galton on the efficacy of prayer, 313.
Geographical conditions, their influence on the character of nations, 258-264.
Geology points back to a beginning, 104-110.
Geological changes indicate a preparation for man, 254-257.
God, omnipotence of, and human freedom, 355-359.
God the author and giver of life, 240.
God, the existence of, the fundamental postulate of all philosophy and all religion, 291, 292.
God, the fatherhood of, 359-365.
God the first principle and unconditioned cause of all existence, 27;
the content of our conception of, 27;
the idea of, a phenomenon of the universal intelligence of our race, 28;
idea and concept of, 350;
harmony of the Biblical and philosophic conception of, 46, 47;
distinction between the nature and essence of, 62, 63;
not necessarily but freely just and good, 63;
immanence of, in nature, 174, 175, 240, 241.
Government of God, distinction between physical, natural, and moral, 367, 368.
Gravitation—attraction not a universal and necessary attribute of matter, 191, 211-213;
must have a cause, 214;
transmitted by the ether, 215;
instantaneous, 215;
cause of, not material, 216;
a derivative force, 221.
Grecian civilization the youth of humanity, 280-282.
Grove on causation, 39;
on force, 340.
H.
Hamilton, Sir William, confounds space and extension, 72;
also space and immensity, 73;
confuses the concepts time, duration, and eternity, 76;
on the inconceivability of an absolute commencement, 93.
Harmony between the philosophic conception of force and the religious conception of God, 338-343.
Hebrew civilization the childhood of humanity, 278-280.
Hedge, Dr., on the immanence of God in nature, 186.
Hegel on Thought as the supreme reality, 25.
Helmholtz denies direct action at a distance, 214.
Herschel, Sir John, his conception of matter, 95, 125, 237;
on force, 39, 341;
on universal gravitation, 191;
on law, 198;
on conservation of energy, 205, 206.
History a revelation of Divine providence, 246;
the goal of, is the perfection of humanity, 248;
the especial field of Divine providence, 253.
Human race commenced its history in the Temperate Zone, 264-268;
distribution of the, not governed by the same law as the distribution of plants and animals, 272;
distribution of, indicates a Providential guidance, 273.
Human freedom and Divine omnipotence, 355-359;
and Divine prescience, 402-405.
Humanity, perfection of, in what does it consist? 248, 249.
I.
Immanence of God in nature, 174, 175, 240, 241;
the doctrine of, not pantheistic, 241, 242.
Immanent attributes of God, 50;
an eternal and necessary in being, 52.
Immensity an attribute of God, 75, 81, 83, 84.
Inertia of matter, 220, 235.
Infinite series a contradiction in adjecto, 90.
Interception of force by matter, 220.
L.
Laplace on the stability of the solar system, 113.
Laurent on Providence, 247.
Law, creation by, 196;
meaning of the term, 197-200.
Laycock, Dr., on the law of design, 129;
on life, 192;
on science, 195.
Life, distinction between molecular and individual, 163;
molecular, the result of the immediate presence and agency of God, 239;
the cause, not the consequence of organization, 240.
Love the highest, determining principle of the Divine efficiency, 130, 131.
M.
Mahan, Dr. A., his fatal concession to Hume, 88;
on an infinite series, 88;
rejects the à priori argument for the being of God, 88-91.
Mansel on the conceivability of a commencement of existence, 94.
Martineau asserts the coeval and coeternal existence of something objective to God, 67;
if true, would invalidate every proof of the existence of God, 67, 68;
on the separate spheres of religion and science, 296.
Matter a created entity, 95, 125.
Matter, eternity of, affirmed by Martineau, 67;
a fatal admission, which imperils the Theistic argument, 85-92.
Matter, theory that, is a phenomenon or a function of force, 123, 124, 228, 236;
a real entity, 235.
Maxwell, Prof., on the nature of matter, 124;
regards matter as a created entity, 125, 126;
rejects the doctrine of action at a distance, 214;
on the origin of motion, 219.
McCosh concedes that space and time are not independent of God, 68;
on proportions of infinite space, 74;
on causation in the will, 399.
Mechanical theory of the origin of things, 299, 300.
Method of the Divine government, 405-407;
a probationary economy, 408-411;
a moral discipline, 411, 412;
an equitable administration, in which responsibility is graduated on the scale of available light and opportunity, 412-416;
secures an infallible and equitable retribution
by connecting character and consequence, 416, 417.
Mill, J. S., on Teleology, 128;
on uniformity of nature, 189.
Mind, stages of development of, in the individual, 276, 277.
Mind the primal source of all being, 38;
the first cause of motion, 236;
the one and only source of power, 237.
Mivart on unconscious intelligence, 226.
Montesquieu, his definition of law, 198.
Moral attributes or perfections of God, 51;
an everlasting voluntary becoming, 52, 63.
Moral government, its grounds, 351-365;
its nature, 366-371;
its subjective conditions, 371, 404;
its end, 417-419.
Moral ideas of the reason identical in all men, 378-380.
Motion, origin of, 219.
Motives, moral, do not act causally on the will, 393-396;
the so-called strength of motives discussed, 397-402.
Müller on Divine love as the highest determining principle of the Divine efficiency, 131.
Murphy, J. J., on unconscious intelligence, 225;
on matter and force, 227-229;
his doctrine involves Pantheism, 229, 230.
N.
Natural and moral distinguished, 369-371.
Nature, meaning of the term, 193, 325;
course of, 326;
constitution of, 326, 329;
controlled and modified by man, 335, 336;
therefore also controlled by God, 337.
Nebular hypothesis implies a beginning, 110, 111.
Necessitarians, theory of, 394, 395.
Newman, John Henry, his conception of God, 31.
Newton, Sir Isaac, his conception of God, 29;
teaches that God constitutes space and duration, 68;
denies action at a distance, 214;
denies that gravity is inherent in and essential to matter, 211, 213.
Niebuhr on Divine providence, 246.
Nitzsch teaches that God is the cause of space and time, 69.
Norton, Prof., on Atomic Forces, 209;
his doctrine that atomic repulsion is the primary force, 220;
teaches that the Infinite Spirit is the primal source of all force, 221, 222.
O.
Omnipotence of God and human freedom, 355-359.
Order of nature, facts concerning the, which are supposed to conflict with the efficacy of prayer, 310.
Order of the universe had a beginning, 98.
Oriental civilization the infancy of humanity, 275.
Origin of things, mechanical theory of the, 299, 300;
vito-dynamical theory of, 299.
Origination and formation, 97.
Owen, Prof. R., on the preparation of the earth for man, 255, 256.
P.
Pantheism, the doctrine of unconscious intelligence ends in, 229, 230.
Perfect personality of God, 51.
Permanence of substance, force, and law, 15.
Permanence of the universe, no à priori ground for belief in the, 100, 188, 189.
Phenomena of the universe in ceaseless change, 14.
Physical and spiritual distinguished, 368.
Physical geography indicates a preparation of the earth for man, 257.
Plastic nature, theory of a, 183, 222-235.
Plato taught that a perfect mind is the primal source of all existence, 38.
Porter, Dr., regards space as an entity, 69.
Prayer—have our prayers any influence with the Supreme Power? 292;
importance of this question, 292, 293;
natural to man, 302-304;
an essential element of life, 304-310;
necessary to the formation of noble character, 306-308;
attacks on the efficacy of, from the stand-point of experience, 313-321;
from the theoretic stand-point, 321-338.
Prayer-gauge, the, not presented in terms of experience, and therefore not capable of experimental application, 317, 318.
Problem, the central, specifically stated,