21, 22.

Procter on Divine supervision and control, 176.

Providence, statement of the Christian doctrine of, 245, 246;
the course of human history a revelation of, 246, 247;
defined, 252;
in the physical universe, 254;
nature and history the two great factors of Divine providence, 258.


R.

Reality of the external world, 14.

Relation between God and man—(1) contiguity, 351-353;
(2) immanency, 353-359;
(3) paternity and filiation, 359-365.

Religion, the sphere of, 294-297;
definition of, by Spencer, 298;
true conception of, 295.

Religious consciousness, the content of, 304, 305;
order of development of, 346-349.

Religious feeling, the facts of, as incontestible as the facts of Physics, 296;
statement of the facts of, 302-310.

Repulsion the primary force, 220.

Richter on the providence of God in history, 247.

Roman civilization the manhood of the race, 282-285.


S.

Schleiermacher on the cause of space and time, 69.

Science and Religion, the apparent antagonism between them, 297, 298.

Science, modern, its metaphysical tendency, 103;
the sphere of science, 294-297.

Self, the fundamental reality of, 13.

Solar heat, dissipation of, 116, 117;
must be finally exhausted, 118.

Space—what is space? 69-78;
is absolute vacuity, 69, 70;
is an entity, 69;
is a relation, 71-75;
confusion of thought in regard to, 71;
confounded with extension, 72
—by Hamilton, 72, 73
—by McCosh, 73
—by Cousin, 74;
confounded with immensity, 74;
the relation of coexistence among extended bodies, 82.

Special providence and the efficacy of prayer, the present issue between science and religion, 291.

Species, the essential element of, a spiritual entity, 164.

Spencer asserts that force is the ultimate of all ultimates, 25;
his definition of law, 198;
admits that will-force symbolizes the cause of all change, 40, 341.

Spinoza, his assertion that all determination is negation, 43.

Spirit-force the only force in the universe, 236.

Stewart, Dugald, on the impossibility of annihilating space, 70;
answer thereto, 71.

Sufficient reason, the law of, 31.

Symbolical Hymn of Creation, 140-142.


T.

Tait, Prof., rejects direct action at a distance, 214.

Teleological idea the highest law of the universe, 128-130;
not invalidated by the doctrine of evolution, 171.

Temperate Zone, the human race commenced its history in the, 264-268;
purely zoological data would lend us to fix that starting-point in the Torrid Zone, 268-272;
a providence here revealed, 273, 274.

Temporal character of the universe, 98;
the order of the universe had a beginning, 98;
this has been the common belief of all ages, 99;
all philosophers have recognized a beginning, 101;
modern science sustains this belief, 102, 103;
Geology points back to a beginning, 104-110;
astronomical paletiology confirms the law of finite duration, 110-118;
Physics especially sustains the belief, 118-121.

Thomas Aquinas, his notion of conservation, 177.

Thomson, Sir William, on secular cooling of the earth, 107, 108;
on dissipation of energy, 119, 120;
on the argument from design, 129;
rejects direct action at a distance, 214;
on life, 240.

Tidal friction dissipates mechanical energy, 115.

Time or Succession, what is it? 78;
confounded by most philosophers with duration, 75,
and with eternity, 75;
consequences of this confusion, 76;
answer of McCosh, 78;
of Dr. Porter, 80;
time the measure of finite duration, 83.

Transformation of energy, 208;
illustrations of, 237.

Transitive or relative attributes of God, 50.

Tyndall on impossibilities in nature, 196;
on the certainty of the facts of religious experience, 296;
admits that the great problem of the age is to find a legitimate satisfaction for the religious emotions, 300;
prescribes the conditions under which it must be solved, 301;
admits that religion can not be dislodged from the heart of man, 304;
believes in the existence of God, 312;
his attack on the efficacy of prayer from the stand-point of science, 321-338;
does not deny that God may create energy, 332;
admits the interference of personal volition in nature, 332-334;
grants that the conception of a universal Father who controls the phenomena of nature is not unscientific, 337;
distinguishes between the force which animates nature and the God who answers prayer, 338-340.


U.

Unconditioned Will the principle of all reality, efficiency, and perfection, 34, 41-48.

Unconscious intelligence, doctrine of, 225;
impossibility of forming any conception of, 226, 227;
no difficulties relieved by this hypothesis, 232-235.

Uniformity of Nature, meaning of the term, 193-196, 325-330.

Uniformity of the course of nature not an intuitive belief, 99, 188-190, 321, 326;
an assumption, 322;
what ground is there for this assumption? 322-324.

Unity, demand of the reason for, 23.

Unity of the Cosmos, 15.

Universal beliefs, authority of, 100, 101.

Universal Father controlling nature a scientific conception, 336, 337.

Universe an effect, 21;
had a commencement in time, and will therefore have an end, 98-121;
not a conservative but a dissipative system, 118-121;
dependent on the Divine conservation every moment, 174-177.


V.

Vito-dynamical theory of the origin of things, 299.

Volition, reality of personal, 334.


W.

Wallace on unconscious intelligence, 226;
regards all force as will-force, 39.

Wesley on Divine conservation of the world, 179.

Whedon, Dr., on causation in the will, 390-391;
on the so-called strength of motives, 396, 397, 399, 400;
on Divine foreknowledge, 404;
on equation of probational advantages, 415.

Whewell, Prof., on law and cause, 200;
on the origin of force, 341.

Will the fountain-head of all force, 38;
so recognised by scientists, 39, 40;
this doctrine the balancing-point of a moral theism, 37.

Will, the freedom of the, 380-387;
direct testimony of consciousness, 381-384;
presupposed by the idea of moral obligation, 384, 385;
and by the sense of obligation, 385, 386.

Will the real essence of the soul, 35, 36;
is more than mere power of energy, 35;
the synthesis of reason and power, 197.

Will, the unconditioned, 34;
the absolute first principle, 25;
the Divine will the source of all the forms of force in the universe, 237.

Winchell, Dr., on surface transformations of the earth, 109;
on molar aggregation, 162;
on species, 164;
on the harmony between the Mosaic and geological records, 155.