Old-fashioned ethics and common-sense metaphysics, with some of their applications
The book was all but finished, and only the Preface remained, over which I was hesitating, apprehensive equally of putting into it too much and too little, when one of the most frequent companions of my solitude came to my aid, shewing me, in fragments, a preface already nearly written, and needing only a little piecing to become forth-with presentable.
Here it is.' In these sick days, in a world such as ours, richer than usual in Truths grown obsolete, what can the fool think but that it is all a Den of Lies wherein whoso will not speak and act Lies must stand idle and despair ?
Whereby it happens that for the artist who would fain minister medicinally to the relief of folly, ' the publishing of a Work of-Art,' designed, like this, to redeem Truth from premature obsolescence, ' becomes almost a necessity.'
For, albeit int he heart of the speaker there ought to be some kind of gospel tidings burning until it be uttered, so that otherwise it were better for him that he altogether held his peace,'still, than to have fire burning within, and not to put it forth, not many worse things are readily imaginable.?' Has the word Duty no meaning ?
CONTENTS:
I. ANTI-UTILITARIANISM i
II. HISTORY'S SCIENTIFIC PRETENSIONS ... 84
III. DAVID HUME AS A META PHYSICIAN . . .113
IV. HUXLEY ISM . . 155
V. RECENT PHASES OF SCIENTIFIC ATHEISM . . 199
VI. LIMITS OF DEMONSTRABLE THEISM . . . .266
EPILOGUE 29S
The book details :
Author:William Thomas Thornton
Publication date: 1873
Company:London : Macmillan and co.
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