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The Introduction ix


BOOK I.
OF RELIGION IN GENERAL, OR A DISCOURSE OF THE RELIGIOUS ELEMENT AND ITS MANIFESTATIONS.
Chap. I. An Examination of the Religious Element in Men, and the Existence of its Object 1
II. Of the Sentiment, Idea, and Conception of God 7
III. Power of the Religious Element 13
IV. The Idea of Religion connected with Science and Life 23
V. The three great Historical Forms of Religion 28
VI. Of certain Doctrines connected with Religion. I. Of the Primitive State of Mankind. II. Of the Immortality of the Soul 70
VII. The Influence of the Religious Element on Life 84


BOOK II.
THE RELATION OF THE RELIGIOUS SENTIMENT TO GOD, OR A DISCOURSE OF INSPIRATION.
Chap. I. The Idea and Conception of God 103
II. Relation of Nature to God 110
III. Statement of the Analogy drawn from God's Relation to Nature 117
IV. The General Relation of Supply to Want 118
V. Statement of the Analogy from this Relation 122
VI. The Rationalistic View, or Naturalism 126
VII. The Anti-rationalistic View, or Supernaturalism 133
VIII. The Natural-Religious View, or Spiritualism 138