nence of, 131.

Absolute worth, 17-22.
Academy, the, 151.

Action, substitution of idea

for, a source of despair, 259.
Addison, Joseph, quoted, 29.
Addresses of Dr. Gordon, viii.
Ancient documents, way of
approaching, 165.

Animals, mind in, 51; mental
activity of, 53; love of, for
their offspring, 98; pure
self-seekers, 232; grief of,
brief, 307.

Antisthenes, disciple of So-
crates, 150.

Appearance and reality, 60.
Architecture, creative activ-
ity in, has love as its origin,
97.

between, 78; is one-sided,
78, 79; and hope, 173; in-
spired by beauty of nature,
215, 226, 227.

Arts, creative activity in, has
love as its origin, 98.
Assumption, of Christian
faith, the, 86; love by, 114.
Augustine, quoted, 73, 270;
influence of his mother,
Monica, in his life, 118; a
type of multitudes, 258.

crates, 150.

Aristophanes, and Socrates,
152-54; his portrait of
Socrates, 164.
Aristotle, says all philosophy
begins in wonder, 14; his
"Ethics," 32-35; and
Dante, 33, 34; on the
maxim, "No one errs with
his will," 46; on self-move-
ment and sensibility as the
signs of life, 51; on the law
of contradiction, 145; pos-
sessed by his object, 204;
his refrain, "No man can
energize continuously, 252;
and education, 271; eter-
nity in the philosophy of,
318.

sur-

passes records of Indian
jungle, 265.

Berkeley, George, 319.
Bible, the, on the beginning of
wisdom, 14; as test of truth,
86; and historical criticism,
137-39, 143-45; the inspi-
ration of, 207, 208; a differ-
ent book today, 325.
Biographies, few good, 164,
165.

Birth, mystery of, 306, 336,
337.

Books, great, 5.

Bradley, Dr. F. H., 57, 58, 60,
141, 142.
Browning, Robert, ideas of
redemption and education
present in, 284, 287–304.

Caird, Edward, 141.
Caird, John, 141.
Calvinists, the, 58.
Campbell, Thomas, quoted, x.
Carlyle, Thomas, letter of, to

Thomas Erskine, 106; his
mother's spirit in, 118; in-
fluence of father's spirit in,
120; his Norse myth, 162,
163; quoted, on Eternity,
305, 306.
Cervantes, 262.

Character, human, 99, 100;
personal, 230, 246.
Cheyne, Canon, his edition of
the book of Isaiah, 143,
144.
Christian faith, absolute love
of God the assumption of,
86.
Christianity, definition of, 36,
37; the good of, 37; greater
than Buddhism, 37; will
endure, 38; is the ultimate
illumination and peace, 38;
discloses moral structure of
human world, 39; admits
no metaphysical but holds
to a moral Absolute, 60;

the principle which leads
to, 84, 85.

Church, the, as a saving insti-
tution, 2.

Classics, the great, why they
call upon our homage, 5.
Communion of saints, 343.
Conscience, 241-43.
Contradiction, law of, 125,
145.

Copernicus, 186, 204, 213.
Creative activity has love as
its origin, 97, 98.

Critic, the task of the, 137-40.
Criticism, historical, 137-40;
itself needs criticism, 139,
144; imitation in, 142-45;
destructive in religion, 143.
Cromwell, Oliver, 8, 9.

Daniel, quoted, 73.
Dante, and Aristotle, 32, 33;
example of law of hospit-
able mind, 123; the In-
finite in, 318.

Darwin, Charles, 186, 213.
Dead, value of the, to the
living, 307-11, 343.
Death, whether it is not life,
and life death, 135; of
Jesus, 175-77; the mystery
of, 305-43; how men have
faced, 321-34; Socrates' ar-
gument on, 326-29; Jesus'
conception of, 331-33.
Descartes, 319.

Despair, moral, 258-65.
Devil, the traditional con-
ception of, 43.

Disciples, the, were host to
mind of Jesus, 121; opened
life to the Infinite, 224.
Divine presence in the heart
of humanity, 13.
Dogmatic belief, 2.
Dualism in man, the, 230-54;
accentuated by the reli-

63, 76.

Duty, 333, 341.

Earth, rotation of, anecdote
of the man who had dis-
proved, 146.

Education, means discrimi-
nating hospitality, 120,
121; of the disciples, 121;
system of, outlined in Deu-
teronomy, 130, 131; the
ideal of, 253; a more serious
system of moral, needed,
271, 272; and redemption,
mutually complementary
ideas, 283, 284; and re-
demption, ideas present in
Browning's "Saul," 284,
287-304.

Edwards, Jonathan, 56, 186.
Egoist, philosophy of the, 110.
Egypt, 322, 323.

Elijah, egoism of, 110.
Emerson, R. W., caricature of

his method of writing, 143,
144; quoted, 225.
Emmons, his reasoning on the

grandeur of God, 57.
Emotion in the finding of the
living God, 117.
End, the mystery of the,
305-43.

Epicureans, the, 151, 318.
Erigena, John Scotus, 58, 319.
Erskine, Thomas, letter of
Carlyle to, 106.

Eternal, the, as Absolute
worth, 16-22; how to select
the principle of attaining,
83-85.

Evil, not desired for its own
evil sake, 42-44; belief in
triumph of good over, 255;
attitude of Jesus toward
good and, 257; self-destruc-
tive force of, 264, 266, 269-
75; often appears as good,
266, 267; ultimately is seen
to be evil, 267, 268; moral
life of man began through
experience of good and, 268.
Exaggeration, 9.
Experience, intellectual pow-
er addresses itself to, 39;
knowledge of that which is
beyond us comes through,
83; the test of faith, 108,
109; human world reducible
to four great orders of, 182;
Christian, faith in immor-
tality supports itself from,
321, 322, 329-34.
Expiation as explanation of
the death of Jesus, 175.

Fairbairn, Dr., quoted, 36;

anecdote of the farmer who
drove four miles to hear,
127.

Faith, the issue of the disci-

pline of time upon the free
mind, xii, xiii; the tendency
of the world of, gains reflec-
tion in individual minds,
xii, xiii; inevitableness of
certain ideas of, 7, 8; mis-
givings as to, 8, 9; time-
attested, 10; Christian, ab-
solute love of God the as-
sumption of, 86; the doc-

trine of Fatherhood in God
is a doctrine of, 107; in
Jesus, beginning of, 199; in
God, beginning of, 200; to
keep the, 188, 201, 202; in
the ultimate triumph of
good, 255; the result of
Browning's poem "Saul,"
303.

Fatherhood, obligation of, 92,
93.

Fatherhood in God, what is

meant by, 90-96; grounds
for belief in, 97-105; is a
doctrine of faith, not a dem-
onstrated truth, 107; the
best working hypothesis,
108.

Garden of Eden, meaning of,
281-83.
Genius, 249.

God, transcendent glory of,
15, 16; our knowledge of,
provisional, 22; sense of,
25; how sense of, becomes
distinct in life, 26-31; the
good the path to, 30;
Plato's, 32; Aristotle's, 33;
no place for, in Buddhism,
35, 36; mystery of, 50; is
he personal? 55; as an in-
dividual and as infinite, 55,
56; personality in, 55, 59;
the doctrine of the Trinity,

an attempt to combine the
two views of, 56; assertion
of, against humanity, 56–
58; extremes of the indi-
vidualistic view of, 58, 59;
way of combining the two
ideas of, 59; limited by per-
sonality, 59, 60; moral ab-
soluteness of, 60, 61; cer-
tain religious experiences
dependent upon reality of
personality in, 70-72; imi-
tation of, 71; and the
103d Psalm, 72; approached
through the nature of man,
82; how select the principle
whereby to get at, 83-85;
absolute love of, is the as-
sumption of Christian faith,
86; names by which he is
known, 90; what is meant by
Fatherhood in, 90-96; the
Eternal Idealist, 92, 200;
obligation of, to mankind,
92-94; essentiality of men
to, 94, 95; goodness of, can
be recognized, 96; grounds
for belief in love of, 97-105;
doctrine of Fatherhood in,
a doctrine of faith, 107;
way of finding the living,
115-17; human hospitality
toward, 118-24; the great-
est thought that ever en-
tered the human mind,
128; beginning of faith in,
200; with a programme in
this world, 200; known by
the Idealist as the driving
power of his being, 200,
201; faith in, our ultimate
confidence, 274; the one
restriction, he cannot con-
tradict himself, 336. See
Infinite.
Good, the, world of men is in

quest of, vii, 41, 42, 50;