The System of Nature, Vol. 1
VOL. I.
MIRABAUD'S SYSTEM OF NATURE
PART I. LAWS OF NATURE—OF MAN—THE FACULTIES OF THE
SOUL—DOCTRINE OF IMMORTALITY—ON HAPPINESS.
- CHAP. I. Nature and her Laws.
- CHAP. II. Of Motion, and its Origin.
- CHAP. III. Of Matter.—Of its various
Combinations.—Of its diversified Motion, or of the Course of Nature.
- CHAP. IV. Laws of Motion, common to every Being of
Nature.—Attraction and Repulsion.—Inert Force.—Necessity.
- CHAP. V. Order and
Confusion.—Intelligence.—Chance.
- CHAP. VI. Moral and Physical Distinctions of
Man.—His Origin.
- CHAP. VII. The Soul and the Spiritual System.
- CHAP. VIII. The Intellectual Faculties derived from
the Faculty of Feeling.
- CHAP. IX. The Diversity of the Intellectual
Faculties: they depend on Physical Causes, as do their Moral
Qualities.—The Natural Principles of Society.—Morals.—Politics.
- CHAP. X. The Soul does not derive its ideas from
itself—It has no innate Ideas.
- CHAP. XI. Of the System of Man's free agency.
- CHAP. XII. An examination of the Opinion which
pretends that the System of Fatalism is dangerous.
- CHAP. XIII. Of the Immortality of the Soul;—of
the Doctrine of a future State;—of the Fear of Death.
- CHAP. XIV. Education, Morals, and the Laws suffice
to restrain Man.—Of the desire of Immortality.—Of Suicide.
- CHAP. XV. Of Man's true Interest, or of the Ideas
he forms to himself of Happiness.—Man cannot be happy without Virtue.
- CHAP. XVI. The Errors of Man,—upon what
constitutes Happiness.—the true Source of his Evil.—Remedies that may
be applied.
- CHAP. XVII. Those Ideas which are true, or founded
upon Nature, are the only Remedies for the Evils of
Man.—Recapitulation.—Conclusion of the first Part.
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