The Bridgewater Treatises : On the Power, Wisdom, and Goodness of God, as manifested in the Adaptation of External Nature to the Moral and Intellectual Constitution of Man. In two volumes.

by Thomas Chalmers [1780-1847]

Hardcover, 1835

Call number

L175 .B7 1835

Publication

London: William Pickering, 1835.

Physical description

290, 302 p.; 22 cm

Notes

CONTENTS:

Volume One.
Dedication.
Notice.
Introductory chapter.
PART I. — ON THE ADAPTATION OF EXTERNAL NATURE TO THE MORAL CONSTITUTION OF MAN.
Chapter I. — First General Argument.—On the Supremacy of Conscience.
Chapter II. — Second General Argument.—On the Inherent Pleasure of the Virtuous, and Misery of the Vicious Affections.
Chapter III. — Third General Argument.—The Power and Operation of Habit.
Chapter IV. — On the General Adaptation of External Nature to the Moral Constitution of Man.
Chapter V. — On the Special and Subordinate Adaptations of External Nature to the Moral Constitution of Man.
Chapter VI. — On those Special Affections which conduce to the Civil and Political Wellbeing of Society.

Volume Two.
PART I. — ON THE ADAPTATION OF EXTERNAL NATURE TO THE MORAL CONSTITUTION OF MAN.
Chapter VII. — On those Special Affections which conduce to the Economic Wellbeing of Society.
Chapter VIII. — On the Relation in which the Special Affections of our Nature stand to Virtue; and on the Demonstration given forth by it, both to the Character of Man and the Character of God.
Chapter IX. — Miscellaneous Evidences of Virtuous and Benevolent Design, in the Adaptation of External Nature to the Moral Constitution of Man.
Chapter X. — On the Capacities of the World for making a Virtuous Species happy; and the Argument deducible from this, both for the Character of God and the Immortality of Man.

PART II. — ON THE ADAPTATION OF EXTERNAL NATURE TO THE INTELLECTUAL CONSTITUTION OF MAN.
Chapter I. Chief Instances of this Adaptation.
Chapter II. On the Connection between the Intellect and the Emotions.
Chapter III. On the Connection between the Intellect and the Will.
Chapter IV. On the Defects and the Uses of Natural Theology.

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018a124000

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