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FIRST AND LAST THINGS
A CONFESSION OF FAITH AND RULE OF LIFE
BY
H.G. WELLS.
INTRODUCTION.
BOOK 1. METAPHYSICS.
CHAPTER 1.1. THE
NECESSITY FOR METAPHYSICS.
CHAPTER 1.2.
THE RESUMPTION OF METAPHYSICAL ENQUIRY.
CHAPTER 1.3. THE WORLD OF FACT.
CHAPTER 1.4.
SCEPTICISM OF THE INSTRUMENT.
CHAPTER 1.5. THE
CLASSIFICATORY ASSUMPTION.
CHAPTER 1.6. EMPTY TERMS.
CHAPTER 1.7. NEGATIVE TERMS.
CHAPTER 1.8. LOGIC
STATIC AND LIFE KINETIC.
CHAPTER 1.9. PLANES
AND DIALECTS OF THOUGHT.
CHAPTER 1.10. PRACTICAL CONCLUSIONS FROM THESE CONSIDERATIONS.
CHAPTER 1.11. BELIEFS.
CHAPTER 1.12. SUMMARY.
BOOK 2. OF BELIEFS.
CHAPTER 2.1. MY PRIMARY ACT
OF FAITH.
CHAPTER 2.2. ON USING THE
NAME OF GOD.
CHAPTER 2.3. FREE WILL AND PREDESTINATION.
CHAPTER 2.4. A
PICTURE OF THE WORLD OF MEN.
CHAPTER 2.5. THE PROBLEM OF MOTIVES THE REAL PROBLEM OF LIFE.
CHAPTER 2.6. A REVIEW OF
MOTIVES.
CHAPTER 2.7. THE SYNTHETIC
MOTIVE.
CHAPTER 2.8. THE BEING OF
MANKIND.
CHAPTER 2.9.
INDIVIDUALITY AN INTERLUDE.
CHAPTER 2.10. THE MYSTIC
ELEMENT.
CHAPTER 2.11. THE SYNTHESIS.
CHAPTER 2.12. OF PERSONAL IMMORTALITY.
CHAPTER 2.13. A
CRITICISM OF CHRISTIANITY.
CHAPTER 2.14. OF OTHER
RELIGIONS.
CHAPTER 2.15.
BOOK 3. OF GENERAL
CONDUCT.
CHAPTER 3.1. CONDUCT
FOLLOWS FROM BELIEF.
CHAPTER 3.2. WHAT IS GOOD?
CHAPTER 3.3. SOCIALISM.
CHAPTER
3.4. A CRITICISM OF CERTAIN FORMS OF SOCIALISM.
CHAPTER 3.5. HATE AND LOVE.
CHAPTER 3.6. THE
PRELIMINARY SOCIAL DUTY.
CHAPTER 3.7. WRONG WAYS OF
LIVING.
CHAPTER 3.8. SOCIAL PARASITISM AND CONTEMPORARY INJUSTICES.
CHAPTER 3.9. THE
CASE OF THE WIFE AND MOTHER.
CHAPTER 3.10. ASSOCIATIONS.
CHAPTER 3.11. OF AN ORGANIZED BROTHERHOOD.
CHAPTER
3.12. CONCERNING NEW STARTS AND NEW RELIGIONS.
CHAPTER 3.13. THE IDEA OF
THE CHURCH.
CHAPTER 3.14. OF SECESSION.
CHAPTER 3.15. A DILEMMA.
CHAPTER 3.16. A COMMENT.
CHAPTER 3.17. WAR.
CHAPTER 3.18. WAR AND
COMPETITION.
CHAPTER 3.19. MODERN WAR.
CHAPTER 3.20. OF
ABSTINENCES AND DISCIPLINES.
CHAPTER 3.21. ON FORGETTING, AND THE NEED OF PRAYER, READING,
DISCUSSION AND WORSHIP.
CHAPTER 3.22. DEMOCRACY AND ARISTOCRACY.
CHAPTER 3.23. ON DEBTS OF
HONOUR.
CHAPTER 3.24. THE IDEA OF
JUSTICE.
CHAPTER 3.25. OF LOVE AND
JUSTICE.
CHAPTER 3.26. THE
WEAKNESS OF IMMATURITY.
CHAPTER 3.27.
POSSIBILITY OF A NEW ETIQUETTE.
CHAPTER 3.28. SEX.
CHAPTER 3.29. THE
INSTITUTION OF MARRIAGE.
CHAPTER
3.30. CONDUCT IN RELATION TO THE THING THAT IS.
CHAPTER 3.31.
CONDUCT TOWARDS TRANSGRESSORS.
BOOK 4. SOME
PERSONAL THINGS.
CHAPTER 4.1. PERSONAL LOVE
AND LIFE.
CHAPTER 4.2. THE NATURE OF LOVE.
CHAPTER 4.3. THE WILL TO LOVE.
CHAPTER 4.4. LOVE AND DEATH.
CHAPTER 4.5. THE
CONSOLATION OF FAILURE.
CHAPTER 4.6. THE LAST
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