Man Primeval, Or, The Constitution and Primitive Condition of the Human Being

I leave it to speak for itself; with no solicitude whatever respecting the truth and importance of the principles involved, but with much relative to the manner in which I have expounded them.

CONTENTS.

FIRST PART.

THE DIVINE METHOD.

CHAPTER I.-HOLINESS.

1, The ancient earth prepared for man. 2, Geological changes, which

preceded his creation, more remarkable than those which attended it.

3, Other intelligences already existed elsewhere. 4, But man's creation

of profound interest. 5, The first Law. 6, The ancient earth the scene

of Divine power. 7, Of Wisdom. 8, Of Goodness, awakening the expec-

tation of another disclosure. 9, Moral Government; Holiness, Justice.

10, Will the different parts of this stage be separated by long intervals?

11, Holiness already displayed elsewhere. 12, Will man be the occasion

of a new disclosure? 13, He may be expected first to epitomise and

exhibit the preceding displays. 14, Man's constitution. 15, The image

of God

CHAPTER II.—THE PAST BROUGHT FORWARD.

1, The second law 2, New source of information, the Bible. 3, Char-

acter of the narrative. 4, Anthropopathic. 5, Optical. 6, Specifically

relates to man. 7, Is in analogy with disciplinary character of general

Divine arrangements. 8, Law illustrated; pre-existing matter employed.

9, Time of its origination indefinitely remote. 10, Probable extent of the

Mosaic chaos and creation. 11, The Edenic region and garden. 12, State

of chaos. 13, The six days' work. 14, The conditions of this law further

satisfied. 15, In the creation of man. 16, Antecedently improbable that

man would be closely allied to preceding nature. 17, Yet he is material.

18, Organic. 19, Animal. 20, First, as to nutrition. 21, Secondly, the

propagation of the species. 22, The creation of woman. 23, The unity

of the species. 24, How implied in Gen. i. ii. 25, Difficulties to be

expected, but diminishing. 26, Inferred from anatomy. 27, Physiology.

28, Psychology. 29, History and physical geography. 30, Comparative

philology. 32, Analogy. 33, Objection from chronology answered. 34,

Plurality of species involves greater difficulties. 35, The different branches

of evidence unite. 36, Thirdly, Instincts. 37, Nature and man recipro-

relation of the angelic to the human economy

CHAPTER III.-PROGRESSION.

SECTION I.-Sensation and Perception.

1, The third law. 2, Reasons for it. 3, Man, the being to whom the
Divine manifestation is to be made. 4, The Creating and the created

minds must have certain things in common. 5, General proposition; man
must be placed in sensible communication with nature. 6, Certain condi-
tions of sensational perception. 7, That the perception be of phenomena

secondary qualities- primary qualities. 9, That the intellect appre-

hend the object as it is probable ground of the distinction between pri-

mary and secondary qualities, in relation to man. 11, That perception

be immediate representationalism and its source — - leads to idealism

knowledge of objects direct. 15, That these conditions be uniform and

constant. 16, Subjective conditions presupposed. 17, First sensational

perceptions of the first man

1, General proposition. 2, Man must have the power of observing

relations. 3, Where do they exist? 4, Laws of the mind in thinking?

Difference between Locke and Kant. 5, Examples; every body in space,

motion in time. 6, Every phenomenon has a cause. 7, Every attribute

implies a substance. 8, Secondary qualities imply externality. 9, Ex-

ternal phenomena sustain relations of resemblance. 10, Means and ends,

or final clauses. 11, Logic. 12, Induction. 13, Art. 14, Here is a second

means of knowledge. 15, Coincidence of the objective and the sub-

jective

SECTION III.-Reason, speculative and realized.

1, General proposition; man must have rational beliefs, which account

for these relations. 2, Characteristics of such beliefs. 6, How do they

arise? 7, Order of their development-distinctions between reason spe-

culative and practical. 12, The form of the products of reason, as Beliefs

-different opinions respecting our views of the Infinite. 16, Number of

original beliefs -must include whatever truths were presupposed in

creation. 19, Validity of such beliefs-authority of consciousness ulti-

mate-for the spiritual as well as for the material. 25, Provision for the

reception of Divine revelations. 26, Ground for expecting such a mental

constitution. 27, The mind transcends nature. 28, Antecedents, logical

and chronological. 29, The arguments à priori and à posteriori. 30, Ne-

cessary and contingent truth. 31, Synthesis and analysis. 32, Co-exist-

tence and successive existence. 33, Deduction. 34, Induction. 36, Nature

and man proceed inversely. 40, Necessary truth brings the mind nearer

to God. 41, Science becomes deductive. 42, Sense, reflection, reason,

coincide with nature, man, God. 43, God descends in nature, man

ascends .

SECTION IV.-Imagination.

1, General proposition. 2, The actual not the measure of the possible.

3, Imagination, how allied to the preceding faculties. 4, Distinguishable

from them. 5, Works of, anticipate criticism. 6, Distinct from fancy.

7, Relates to that which might be. 8, Its sphere, the moral as well as the

intellectual
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SECTION V.-Man Emotional.

1, Necessity for emotional susceptibility. 2, Proposition. 3, Emotion,
what, as compared with appetites, sensation, &c. -distribution of emotion

-appropriative. 11, Impartative. 18, Arrestive. 19, Perfective beauty

and sublimity. 20, Remedial. 21, Relational; further generalization. 22,

Their relation to the great scheme. 23, Co-extensive with means of

knowledge. 24, Important to cultivate them. 25, So as to be moved by

objects in proportion to their importance. 26, Forming a scale of valua

tion. 27, Laws of the emotions

SECTION VI.-Man Voluntary.

1, Viewed hitherto as passive. 2, A will necessary. 3, General propo-

sition. 6, Motives conditionally resistible. 10, Force of motives differing

from physical causation. 11, The will itself a conditioned cause. 14,

Conscious non-restraint in volition-freedom an ultimate fact-motives,

not objective powers-character and motive re-act-idea of a cause

first given by the will. 21, But volitions necessarily conditioned by

motives-each theory errs by exclusiveness-liberty of indifference ab-

surd. 25, Can a particular will co-exist with a universal law? Law and

liberty co-exist in God, and, therefore, manifested in man, and analogous

with it- Divine and human agency compatible-coincidence of the

human will with the Divine essential to freedom. 30, Can man's freedom

- co-exist with the laws of material nature? This makes self-dedication

possible. 32, Power of the will; can call for various motives. 33, These

suggest others. 34, From which it can select-attention. 35, Attention

increases the motive power of an object—hence Belief not involuntary

-in what sense necessary to aid understanding. 37, Prevents distraction

from other objects. 39, Voluntary acts become easier by repetition-

habit. 42, Muscular system given to serve the will. 44, The individual

will can unite with other wills. 45, A number co-operating for good, sub-

lime. 46, Even one will united with the Divine. 47, The Bible assumes

all the laws of the will.

SECTION VII.- Conscience.

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1, An intelligent will, a new power on earth. 3, A reflection of the

Divine will. 4, Constitutes man a person. 5, But not the only element

of responsibility-general proposition. 7, Twofold distribution of moral

science. 8, How does man derive the notion of virtue? 9, He univer-

sally recognizes a moral quality in actions. 14, Not from human law.

15, Nor from Divine appointment. 16, Nor from his own constitution.

18, Nor as the result of intellectual intuition. 20, Judgment. 21, Asso-

ciation. 22, Nor a calculation of consequences Hobbes - Hume-

Paley-Dwight. 27, Several reasons why not. 37, Conscience a dis-

tinct faculty. 38, Its function. 39, Threefold. 42, Its relation to the

different classes of the motives. 43, To the will. 44, Universal in rela-

tion to the movements of the mind. 45, Unintermitting. 46, Supreme

48, Influence without compulsion. 49, Its perversion within limits

SECTION VIII.-Language and Testimony.

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1, A second mind a means of knowledge. 2, Conditions of this know-
ledge. 3, First, language, what sounds articulate - signs of thought
-harmonizing with laws of thought-mental agreement-verbal agree-
ment-fixed. 10, Secondly, the credibility of testimony must be ascer
tainable. 11, Conditions. 17, The mind constituted to believe such. 18,

What the origin of language. 19, Three opinions. 22, The original
unity of language. 23, The primitive language. 24, Erroneous notions
respecting the new-made man

SECTION IX. — Man's Primitive Condition.