Lectures on Biology, Transcendentalism & Orthodoxy - With the Preludes on Current Events and Analytical Indices With the Preludes on Current Events and Analytical Indices

Originally published in 1881. Contents Include: BIOLOGY: Lectures - Huxley and Tyndall on Evolution - The Concessions of Evolutionists - The Microscope and Materialism - Lotze, Beale and Huxley on Living Tissues - Life or Death Mechanism, Which? - Does Death End All? - Automatic and Influential Nerves - Emerson's Views on Immortality - Ulrici on the Spiritual Body - TRANSCENDENTALISM: Intuition, Instinct, Experiment, Syllogism as Tests of Truth - Transcendentalism in New England - Theodore Parker's Absolute Religion - Caricatured Definitions in Religious Science - Theodore Parker on the Guilt of Sin - Final Permanence of Moral Character - Can a perfect Being Permit Evil? - The Religion required by the Nature of things - Theodore Parker on Communion with God as Personal - The Trinity and Tritheism - Fragmentariness of Outlook upon the Divine Nature - ORTHODOXY: Is there Nothing in God to Fear? - The Trinity, a Practical Truth - The Trinity, the Martyr's Faith - Theodore Parker's Self-Contradictions - The Atonement in the Light of Self-Evident Truth - The Harmonisation of the Soul with its Environment - True and False Optimism - A Consideration of Mr. Clarke's and Mr. Hale's Criticisms - Scepticism in New England - Theodore Parker as an Anti-Slavery Reformer - The Sources of Theodore Parker's Errors