First and Last Things
eBook - ePub

First and Last Things

A Confession of Faith and Rule of Life

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  1. 203 pages
  2. English
  3. ePUB (mobile friendly)
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub

First and Last Things

A Confession of Faith and Rule of Life

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About this book

In this collection of insightful essays, science fiction master H.G. Wells sets forth his views on life, ethics, religion, and a host of other moral, ethical and metaphysical matters. First and Last Things offers a fascinating glimpse into the mind and manner of thinking of a groundbreaking creative genius.

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Information

Publisher
The Floating Press
Year
2012
eBook ISBN
9781775456179
Edition
0
Topic
Theology & Religion

Table of contents

  1. FIRST AND LAST THINGS
  2. Contents
  3. Introduction
  4. BOOK THE FIRST - METAPHYSICS
  5. 1.1 - The Necessity for Metaphysics
  6. 1.2 - The Resumption of Metaphysical Enquiry
  7. 1.3 - The World of Fact
  8. 1.4 - Skepticism of the Instrument
  9. 1.5 - The Classificatory Assumption
  10. 1.6 - Empty Terms
  11. 1.7 - Negative Terms
  12. 1.8 - Logic Static and Life Kinetic
  13. 1.9 - Planes and Dialects of Thought
  14. 1.10 - Practical Conclusions From These Considerations
  15. 1.11 - Beliefs
  16. 1.12 - Summary
  17. BOOK THE SECOND — OF BELIEFS
  18. 2.1 - My Primary Act of Faith
  19. 2.2 - On Using the Name of God
  20. 2.3 - Free Will and Predestination
  21. 2.4 - A Picture of the World of Men
  22. 2.5 - The Problem of Motives the Real Problem of Life
  23. 2.6 - A Review of Motives
  24. 2.7 - The Synthetic Motive
  25. 2.8 - The Being of Mankind
  26. 2.9 - Individuality an Interlude
  27. 2.10 - The Mystic Element
  28. 2.11 - The Synthesis
  29. 2.12 - Of Personal Immortality
  30. 2.13 - A Criticism of Christianity
  31. 2.14 - Of Other Religions
  32. 2.15
  33. BOOK THE THIRD — OF GENERAL CONDUCT
  34. 3.1 - Conduct Follows From Belief
  35. 3.2 - What is Good?
  36. 3.3 - Socialism
  37. 3.4 - A Criticism of Certain Forms of Socialism
  38. 3.5 - Hate and Love
  39. 3.6 - The Preliminary Social Duty
  40. 3.7 - Wrong Ways of Living
  41. 3.8 - Social Parasitism and Contemporary Injustices
  42. 3.9 - The Case of the Wife and Mother
  43. 3.10 - Associations
  44. 3.11 - Of an Organized Brotherhood
  45. 3.12 - Concerning New Starts and New Religions
  46. 3.13 - The Idea of the Church
  47. 3.14 - Of Secession
  48. 3.15 - A Dilemma
  49. 3.16 - A Comment
  50. 3.17 - War
  51. 3.18 - War and Competition
  52. 3.19 - Modern War
  53. 3.20 - Of Abstinences and disciplines
  54. 3.21 - On Forgetting, and the Need of Prayer, Reading, Discussion and Worship
  55. 3.22 - Democracy and Aristocracy
  56. 3.23 - On Debts of Honour
  57. 3.24 - The Idea of Justice
  58. 3.25 - Of Love and Justice
  59. 3.26 - The Weakness of Immaturity
  60. 3.27 - Possibility of a New Etiquette
  61. 3.28 - Sex
  62. 3.29 - The Institution of Marriage
  63. 3.30 - Conduct in Relation to the Thing That Is
  64. 3.31 - Conduct Towards Transgressors
  65. BOOK THE FOURTH — SOME PERSONAL THINGS.
  66. 4.1 - Personal Love and Life
  67. 4.2 - The Nature of Love
  68. 4.3 - The Will to Love
  69. 4.4 - Love and Death
  70. 4.5 - The Consolation of Failure
  71. 4.6 - The Last Confession