A
Absolute knowledge, false character of, 60.
power considered, 175.
Abstraction, not the true method of philosophy, 354.
Æther of the nerves, 76.
Age, the early Christian, 148.
the middle, 149, 246.
that of the restoration of letters, 150.
anti-Christian spirit of the present, 151.
a struggle for truth the conflict of the present, 158.
the spirit of the present a spirit of untruth, 159.
different ages of the history of the world, 163.
characteristics of the present, 164, 457.
the middle contained all the elements of the Christian state, 182.
rationalism to be feared in the present, 227.
spirit of the present, 409.
Alphabet, the psychological, 452.
Angels, the neutral, 136.
Animals, soul of, 121.
Antediluvian--see _World_.
Architecture, its alliance to sculpture, 260.
Ariana, the, 246.
Aristotle, his system, 243.
Aristotelian schoolmen, 247.
Art, symbolical nature and constitution of life with reference to it, 256.
Art, all symbolical, 257.
religious origin of, 265
a feeling of the infinite, 415.
a universal language, 421.
evil influences of, 455.
hope the soul of, 456.
present state of, 458.
spurious, 461.
Astronomy, modern, 84.
seven the traditionary number of the planets, 85.
Pythagorean system of, 85.
Atheism, produced by French philosophy, 18.
tendency of modern science to, 155.
Atlantis, legend of, 83.
Authority, God the source of, 168.
Avarice, its character, 34.
apart from industry, 35.
B
Beauty, 506.
source of in fiction, 510.
Bible--see _Scriptures_.
Body, the spiritual, 74.
Byron, his Cain, 21, 410.
C
Cause, final, doctrine of, 125.
Creation intelligible, 127.
Chemical analysis, modern, results of, 88.
China, its state of separation, 181.
Christianity, revelation of, 146.
first eight Christian centuries, 148.
the middle ages, 149.
anti-Christian spirit of this era, 151.
universal peace, 184.
its dispensation, struggle between light and darkness in, 207.
its science and philosophy, 245.
the Gnostics and Arians, 246.
the middle ages--the Aristotelian schoolmen, 247.
disputations of the schoolmen, 248.
of the eighteenth century, 249.
without an altar, 268.
the Christian state an hereditary monarchy, 282.
the true guardian of liberty, 287.
its jurisprudence, 296.
spread among the Mohammedans, 297.
its priests not hereditary, 308.
its justice the basis of European peace, 311.
confederation of its states, 312.
Church, its collision with the state, 299, 304.
separation of, 306.
Communion, the highest symbol of faith, 267.
Compass, the invention of, 83.
Candillac, his philosophy, 17.
Conscience, its relationship to reason, 54.
imperfection of, 435.
Consistency the criterion of truth, 252.
Creation, final cause of, intelligible, 127.
D
Death, final emancipation of nature from, 93.
destruction of, 340.
Deluge, the, how to be considered, 218.
Despotism, 290.
the natural result of anarchy, 291.
Dialogue the natural form of philosophy, 68.
the true form assumed by all living thought, 381.
Discernment the link between faith and science, 195.
Divine--see _God_.
Doubt, a necessary condition of man’s mind, 426.
essential to man, 526.
the passage from ignorance to knowledge, 527.
absolute, a source of error, 530.
true, and limited, indispensable to advance of knowledge, 531.
Dreams, their character, 29.
E
Earth, man’s affinity to, 81.
Education, its symbolical character, 262.
philosophy the crown of, 348.
English, the Reformation among, 299.
their constitution, 303.
Church and State. 304.
Enthusiasm springs from love, 37.
the origin of patriotism, 38.
its longing for the eternal and divine, 38, 421, 479.
Epicureans, the, 244.
Error, rapid growth of, 60.
four sources of, 105.
intermediate conflict of, with truth, 153.
religious, two forms of, 176.
twofold spirit of truth and error, 206.
struggle between, 207.
reason and fancy the ultimate sources of, 221.
understanding and will co-operating
causes in its formation and diffusion, 223.
truth not established by its refutation, 229.
controversy with, begets it, 314.
knowledge of, 489.
co-ordinate with knowledge, 506.
two sources of, in philosophy, 522.
subjective, 523.
absolute doubt a source of, 530.
Eternal punishments, 133.
the unquenchable fire, 134.
Eternity, 401.
not reconcilable with time, 405.
of the world, 406.
Europe, peace of, based on Christian justice, 311.
Evil, moral, a result of man’s freedom, 130.
physical, a means of purification, 131.
influence of, in nature, 338.
F
Faith, man’s, not sufficiently childlike, 112.
can restore unity to the mind, 113.
its dissension between faith and science, 193.
discernment the link between them, 196.
reconcilable with science, 199.
choice between that and infidelity, 210.
not a negative limitation of reason, 214.
its identity with supreme science, 216.
the soul’s firmament, 218.
communion its highest symbol, 267.
genuine and spurious, 453.
true and false faith, 476.
universal, 486.
in relation to time, 498.
its relation to knowledge, 499.
knowledge impossible without it, 500.
Fall, the, physical consequences of, 92.
discord of the mind one of its consequences, 98.
Falsehood to be fought with its own weapons, 156.
trifling with oaths, 159.
the present spirit of the age, 159.
Fancy, man’s distinctive property, 25.
a division of the soul apart from reason, 30.
its influence on the sense, 31.
on the passions, 32.
its influence on the nobler feelings, 35.
on love and marriage, 37.
on enthusiasm, 37.
on all man’s emotions, 40.
the poetical, 40.
its powers, 75.
fancy and reason the ultimate sources of error, 221.
seldom harmonizes with reason, 361.
not attributable to God, 370.
Feeling, the center of consciousness, 473.
its spurious and genuine manifestations, 474.
a source of revelation, 518.
Fichte, his philosophy, 19.
Final causes, doctrine of, 125.
of creation intelligible, 127.
Freedom, man’s, 128.
moral evil a result of it, 130.
created spirits without it, 134.
of philosophy, 186.
French, their modern philosophy, 17.
its atheism, 18.
its fatal results, 18.
their advancement in physical science, 22.
G
Generation, spontaneous, creatures of, 122.
Genius, worship of, 455.
Geology, analogy of philology to, 388.
must maintain the union of soul and spirit, 443.
Germans, their philosophy, 19.
Kant, 19.
Jacobi, Fichte, 19.
Schelling, 20.
Hegel, 21.
its superiority to the French, 22.
its old Christian empire, 288.
its customary law, 294.
confederation of states, 308, 312.
Gnostics, the, 246.
God, his attributes, 55.
figurative language as applied to Him, 56.
His divine nature unappreciated by reason, 57.
the understanding the only proper organ for acquiring
a knowledge of Him, 58.
limitation of His justice and mercy, 60.
knowledge of Him a science of experience, 61.
His revelation to man, 65.
knowledge of, illimitable, 73.
condescension of the divine essence, 108.
self-denial bringing us near Him, 109.
the author and preserver of nature’s laws, 117.
His divine nature not subject to necessity, 129.
His divine wisdom manifested in the realm of truth, 141.
His divine order in the history of the world and relations of States, 162.
the source of justice and authority, 168.
kings His vicegerents, 169.
priests, 171.
His temporal judgments on the world, 178.
the Greeks His second chosen people, 180.
His being not a matter of reasoning, 190.
can alone bring about the theory of science, 334.
restoration of His image in man, 337.
the mind’s consummation in Him, 366.
understanding may be predicated of Him, 371.
can not be said to have a soul, 372.
the idea of, the only idea, 445.
unintelligible without love, 446.
Greeks, their philosophers, different cosmogonies of, 8.
a second chosen people of God, 180.
rise and decline of their philosophy, 239.
their logic, 254.
H
Heathenism a corruption of a purer Gentilism, 234.
Hegel, his philosophy, 21.
Hieroglyphics, illustrated symbolism of life, 270.
Hindoos, their trinity, character of, 202.
their logic, 254.
History, a prelude of the final judgment, 172.
a rehearsal of the first temptation, 173.
ancient, its results, 291.
Honor apart from pride, 35.
Hope, the vital flame of faith and love, 114, 420.
universal, 486.
in relation to time, 498.
I
Idealism, 511, 523.
Ideas, innate, 79.
of death, 79.
Identity, system of, 511.
Idolatry of science, 216.
of rationalism, 221.
Incarnation, the principle of new life, 272.
Indians, their affinity to the Teutons, 307.
Industry apart from avarice, 35.
Infidelity, choice between, and faith, 210.
its identity with superstition, 211.
Infinite, the, poetry a feeling of, 414.
art, a feeling of, 415.
effects of a perverted sense of, 416.
influence of pure longing for, 418.
Innocence, remembrances of primeval, 496.
Instincts, divided from the senses, 31.
become passions, 32.
their pernicious character, 33.
their nobler character, 35.
the external, 429.
Intuition, intellectual, theory of, 253.
Irony, 380.
J
Jacobi, his philosophy, 19.
Jews, the prophetic people, 146.
their present state, 181.
their dispensation, struggle between light and darkness in, 217.
their theocracy--see _Theocracy_.
their monarchy, 325.
John, St., Gospel of, 204.
Judges, the ministers of the Jewish theocracy, 324.
Judgment, the faculty of, 166.
final, history a prelude of, 172.
the last, 177.
God’s temporal judgments, 178.
phenomena of, 438.
essentially a feeling, 439.
Judicial, the, the highest function of kings, 275.
constitute all prerogatives of supreme power, 278.
the throne and scepter its symbols, 279.
Jurisprudence, Christian, 295.
Justice, divine, limited, 61.
God the source of, 168.
Christian, the basis of European peace, 311, 316.
K
Kant, his philosophy, 19.
Kings, the vicegerents of God, 169, 280.
their power, 273.
sanctity of, 274.
the judicial, the highest function of, 275.
Knowledge, true, slow progress of, 59.
absolute, false character of, 60.
of God, a science of experience, 61.
or divine things, illimitable, 73.
pursuit of, must have a real basis, 491.
relation of faith to, 499.
impossible without faith, 500.
true, 532.
must start from a real object, 538.
its second step a generalization, 539.
its third step an idea, 540.
L
Language, how produced, 49.
the joint produce of tool and spirit, 378.
origin of, 383.
the original, now lost, 386.
original unity of, probable, 387.
primary and secondary, 389.
English, Persian, and French, 390.
perfect in its origin, 391.
classification of, 393.
the picture of consciousness, 395.
the common memory of mankind, 397.
elements of, 448.
ten, the true number of elementary sounds, 449.
vowels, consonants, and aspirates, 451.
the psychological alphabet, 452.
Life, its symbolical nature and constitution
with reference to art and man’s moral relations, 256.
symbolical equation of, 269.
its symbolisms illustrated by hieroglyphics, 270.
new, incarnation, the principle of, 272.
philosophy conversant with it, 350.
the final object of physical research, 502.
the unity of being and thought, 512.
see also _Philosophy_.
Logic of the Greeks and Hindoos, 254.
utility of a higher one, 254.
true, a grammar, 465.
Love, the foundation of happiness and moral welfare, 36.
marriage, 36.
the origin of enthusiasm, patriotism, &c., 37.
its connection with marriage, 41.
difference between genuine and spurious, 42.
the means of reuniting the reason and fancy, 362.
universal, 486.
in relation to time, 498.
M
Magnetism, phenomena of, 83.
Mohammedan empire, 180.
change in their position, 182.
compared with the Roman, 297.
spread of Christian ideas in, 297.
Man, compared with spiritual beings, 24.
fancy his distinctive property, 25.
his triple nature, 26.
his fourfold consciousness, 27.
physiology of, 76.
his affinity to the earth, 81.
concurrence of his will in faith, 109.
his faith not sufficiently childlike, 112.
his longing after the eternal and sublime, 113.
his freedom, 128.
moral evil a result of his freedom, 130.
physical evil a means of purification, 131.
eternal punishment of, 132.
doctrine of his pre-existence, 137.
nature considered relatively to him, 139.
his gradual development, 141.
his general sense for truth, 144.
philosophy of life a science of, 187.
his nature symbolical, 263.
restoration of the divine image in, 337.
compared with brutes, 360.
with angels, 360, 368.
ascription of his faculties to God, 369.
his free will, 373.
manifested in doubt, 375.
the created word, 425.
doubt a necessary condition of his mind, 426.
partial development of his faculties, 433.
his knowledge, 481.
can it be perfect? 484.
limits to his speculation, 535.
Marriage, the foundation of human and political society, 36.
the world’s judgment of it, 42.
difference between genuine and spurious love, 42.
its three conditions, 43.
reciprocal influence, 44.
Materialism has its rise in imagination, 519.
Mathematics, formulæ of, inappropriate to
philosophy, 14.
that of nature, 81.
use of, in philosophy, 345.
principles of empirical, 508.
Medicine, a basis of the science of nature, 78.
Memory, a faculty of the soul, 51, 398.
essential to rationality, 52.
imperfections of, 434.
Mercy, divine, limited, 61.
Method, right use of, in philosophy. 13, 186.
Middle age--see _Age_.
Mind, the, intrinsic discord of, 96.
a consequence of the fall, 98.
restoration of unity, 99.
originally simple, 102.
its essence in pure spirits, 104.
unity of, only to be restored by faith, 114.
struggle between light and darkness in, 209.
the principle of supreme science, 215.
restoration of perfection to it, 335.
a prey to discord. 356.
the, fourfold discord of, 359.
its consummation in God, 366.
inherent discord of, 376.
its yearnings after unity, 377.
doubt a necessary condition of, 426.
feeling the center of unity in, 436.
Miracles, possibility of, 117.
Monarchy, hereditary, the true Christian polity, 286.
mixed, 289.
Moses fought falsehood with its own weapons, 156.
founder of the Jewish theocracy, 321.
Music the representation of ideas, 257.
Mysteries in nature, 126.
Mythology, the subjective the principle of, 219.
its pantheism, 220.
ancient, 517.
vestiges in it of divine truth, 518.
N
Nature, science of, based on medicine, 78.
possibility of attaining it, 79.
innate ideal of its true mathematics, 80.
man’s affinity to the earth, 81.
magnetism, 83.
the compass, 83.
legend of Atlantis, 83.
modern astronomy, 84.
seven the traditionary number of the planets, 85.
Pythagorean system of astronomy, 85.
results of modern chemical analysis, 87.
nature, a system of living forces, 88.
sleep an essential law of, 89.
intelligible to the spiritual only, 90.
physical consequences of the fall, 92.
final emancipation of from death, 93.
its divine order, 115.
a living reproductive power, 116.
God the author and preserver of its laws, 117.
miracles, the Deluge, 118.
no blind necessary force, 119.
a Theodicée, or justification of God’s ways in the
world--its perplexities, 120.
the soul of animals, 121.
creatures of spontaneous generation, 122.
influence of the evil spirits, 124.
doctrine of final cause, 125.
the preadamite world a paradise for angels, 125.
mysteries in, 126.
final cause of creation intelligible, 127.
divine nature not subject to necessity, 129.
created spirits without freedom, 134.
immortal spirits with animal forms, 135.
nature considered relatively to man, 139.
best described by symbols, 140.
influence of evil in, 338.
originally created immortal, 340.
perfection of, 340.
Nerves, æther of, 76.
Numbers, Pythagorean theory of, 462.
P
Painting, the true spiritual art, 259.
Pantheism, mythological and scientific, 220.
as fatal to truth as rationalism, 226.
Parental power, 273.
sanctity of, 273.
Passions, arise from the higher instincts, 32.
the pernicious, 33.
the nobler, 35.
Patriotism springs from enthusiasm and love, 40.
Peace, Christian, universal, 183.
Philology, its analogy to geology, 388.
Philosophy, its dreamy character, 7.
unfeasibility of Plato’s ideal, 8.
cosmogonies of the Ionian school, 8.
objects and limits, 9.
form and method of true philosophy, 10.
that of the schools unintelligible, 11.
distinction between that of life and that of the schools, 11.
intelligibility of the former, 12.
right use of method, 13.
mathematical formulæ inappropriate, 14.
unity of its thoughts, 15.
modern French systems, 17.
modern German, 19.
French physical science, 22.
natural German philosophy superior to the French, 22.
the false starting-point contrasted with the true center, 22.
dialogue its natural form, 68.
improperly confined to a school, 69.
that of life can not be a mere science of reason, 185.
free to use any form or method, 186.
that of life a science of man, 187.
differs from theology, 188.
the relation of truth and science to it, 232.
of the Greeks, rise and decline of, 234.
Ionian schools not materialistic, 240.
religious tendency of Pythagorean and Plato, 240.
the Sophists--Aristotle, 243.
the Stoics and Epicureans, 244.
of the Christians--see _Christianity_.
of life, its symbolical nature and constitution, 256.
true method of, 343.
use of scholastic or mathematical forms, 345.
use and abuse of system, 346.
the crown of education, 348.
conversant with life, 350.
deals chiefly with facts, 428.
from natural science, 467.
method of multiform, 470.
its true method conversational, 472.
two sources of error in, 522.
Physiology of man, 76.
Planets, seven the traditionary number, 85.
Plato, his ideal unfeasible, 8.
trinity of, 202.
religious tendency of, 240.
Poetry embraces music, poetry, and architecture, 261.
a feeling of the infinite, 414.
spurious, 461.
philosophical, 516.
Power, absolute, considered, 175.
Preadamite world, a paradise for angels, 125.
Pre-existence, doctrine of, 137.
Prerogative, all of supreme power judicial, 278.
Pride, its character, 33.
Priests, the vicegerents of God, 171.
their power, 273.
sanctity of, 274.
Christian, not hereditary, 307.
Principle, doctrine of a good and evil, 528.
Prophets, the, kept alive the Jewish theocracy, 326.
Public opinion, 165.
Punishments, eternal, 133.
Pythagoreans, their system of astronomy, 85.
their religious tendency, 240.
their noble political views, 242.
their theory of numbers, 462.
R
Rationalism, idolatry of, 221.
as fatal to truth as pantheism, 226.
more to be feared at present, 227.
danger of, 454.
Reason, a division of the soul apart from fancy, 29.
its essence, 50.
relationship of the faculties of the soul to it, 50.
its power and value, 53.
derivation of the German name, 54.
distinction between, and understanding, 55.
not properly attributable to God, 63.
faith not a negative limitation of, 214.
reason and fancy the ultimate sources of error, 221.
seldom harmonizes with fancy, 361.
not attributable to God, 370.
discursive, not creative, 507.
use and abuse of, 509.
Reformation, the English, 299.
Religion, its symbolism, 264.
in its essence symbolical, 266.
Religious error, two forms of, 176.
Representative governments, 280.
Republics, their liability to adverse changes, 284.
disadvantages of their polity, 285.
Revelation, power to understand it the gift of God, 61.
its fourfold character, 65.
of Scripture, 65.
an ante-Mosaic revelation, 66.
the soul its receptive organ, 68.
its first step preparatory, 143.
gradual, 144.
that of Christianity, 147.
unwritten to the antediluvian world, 235.
both old and new in its doctrine, 323.
sources of, manifold, 503.
Roman Empire, law of, 293.
compared with the Mohammedan, 297.
S
Skepticism, the author of it, 528.
Scepter, the, a judicial symbol, 279.
Schelling, his philosophy, 20.
Schools, philosophy of, unintelligible, 11.
their compared with that of life, 11.
philosophy improperly confined to them, 69.
disputations of the schoolmen, 248.
Science, physical, no system of, in the Bible, 71.
its imperfect character, 73.
of nature, medicine a basis of, 78.
modern, its atheistical tendency, 155.
dissension between science and faith, 193.
discernment the link between, and faith, 195.
reconcilable with faith, 198.
supreme, the mind the principle of, 215.
idolatry of, 216.
its identity with faith, 217.
its pantheism, 220.
its relation to life, 232.
that of Christianity--see _Christianity_.
a great power for good, 315.
free development of, 317.
a real power for good, 319.
theocracy of, 329.
illustrations of, 330.
to be brought about only by God, 333.
the idea of, 488.
Scripture not the original revelation, 66.
contains no system of physical science, 71.
considered as the sword of the Spirit, 230.
Sculpture, its symbolical character, 257.
its alliance to architecture, 260.
Self, sacrifice of, brings us near to God, 109.
how far necessary, 110.
Senses, their triple character, 31, 431.
influence of fancy on, 31.
the external, 430.
higher sensuality, its character, 33.
developments of, 432.
Sleep an essential law of nature, 89.
Soul, the thinking, the center of thought, 23.
the center of moral life, 28.
its unconscious conceptions, 29.
divided between the abstracting and classifying
reason and the inventive fancy, 29.
its four principal branches, 30.
the loving, the center of moral life, 41.
its share in knowledge, 48.
furnishes the cognitive mind with language, 48.
its faculties in relationship to the reason, 50.
the receptive organ of revelation, 68.
considered in relation to nature, 70.
considered in relation to God, 95.
of animals, 121.
its migration among the stars, 138.
the principle of faith, 213.
faith its firmament, 217.
the mutual dependence of it with thought, 365.
its identity with spirit, 367.
its union with the spirit, 442.
the idea of God must maintain it, 443.
see _Mind_.
Speech the outward projection of thought, 379.
varied by moral diversities, 392.
Spinosa, system of, 481.
its influence, 484.
Spirits besides those of men, 24.
the higher, incorporeal, 25.
contain the essence of mind, 103.
Spirits, influence of evil, on nature, 124.
created, without freedom, 134.
immortal ones with animal forms, 135.
Scriptures the sword of the Spirit, 230.
see _Soul_.
Stars, migration of the soul among, 138.
State, the, its collision with the Church, 299, 304.
separation of, 306.
Stoics, the, 244.
Subjective, the, the principle of mythology, 218.
Superstition, its identity with infidelity, 211.
Symbols, nature best described by, 140.
characterize all art, 257.
characterize education, 262.
characterizes man’s nature, 263.
those of religion, 264.
their equation of life, 269.
those of the judicial, 279.
System, use and abuse of, 346.
consistency of idea, the essence of, 347.
T
Talmud, trinity of, 204.
Teutons, their affinity to the Indians, 307.
Theocracy, the true idea of, 320.
the Jewish, 321.
Moses, as founder of, 321.
revelation both old and new in its doctrine, 323.
the Judges, as ministers of, 324.
kept alive by the Prophets, 326.
false notions of, 327.
exists in overruling Providence, 327.
that of science, 329.
illustrations of, from Greek, Roman, Medieval, and Hindoo literature, 331.
illustrations of, from Old and New Testament and Christian literature, 332.
only to be brought about by God, 333.
Theodicée, its perplexities, 120.
Theology, difference of philosophy of life from, 188.
natural, 192.
in method must be rational, 510.
Thought, the mutual dependence of it with feeling, 365.
speech its outward projection, 379.
an inward speech or dialogue, 380.
dialogue the true form assumed by, 381.
innate ideas and forms of, 399.
pure, its character, 461.
Throne, the, a judicial symbol, 279.
Time, 401.
its twofold character, 403.
not excluded from the idea of God, 404.
not irreconcilable with eternity, 405.
Trinity, the, of God, 197.
of the Hindoos, 202.
of the Platonists, 202.
of the Talmud, 204.
Truth, man’s general sense for, 144.
final manifestation of, 152.
intermediate conflict of, with error, 153.
falsehood to be fought with its own weapons, 156.
a struggle for truth the conflict of the age, 158.
untruth the spirit of the age, 159.
call for union among the friends of, 160.
final triumph of, 161.
patience essential to the pursuit of, 199.
the twofold spirit of truth and error, 206.
struggle between, and error, 207.
pantheism and rationalism alike fatal to it, 226.
not established by refutation of error, 229.
right method of propagating it, 229.
its relation to life, 232.
consistency the criterion of, 252.
progress of, 467.
knowledge of possible, 490.
development of, slow and gradual, 534.
U
Understanding, the, considered apart from reason, 55.
the only proper organ for acquiring a knowledge of God, 57.
a co-operating cause in the formation and diffusion of error, 223.
may be predicated of God, 371.
Unity, means of restoration to, 193.
yearnings of the mind after, 377.
W