{"product_id":"2940015719048","title":"THE SYSTEM OF NATURE Volume 1","description":"VOL. I.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCONTENTS\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePreface\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e     PART I--Laws of Nature.--Of man.--The faculties of the soul.\u003cbr\u003e     --Doctrine of immortality.--On happiness.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCHAP. I.  Nature and her laws.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCHAP. II.  Of motion and its origin.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCHAP. III.  Of matter--of its various combinations--of its\u003cbr\u003ediversified motion--or of the course of Nature.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCHAP. IV.  Laws of motion common to every being of Nature--\u003cbr\u003eattraction and repulsion--inert force-necessity.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCHAP. V.  Order and confusion--intelligence--chance.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCHAP. VI.  Moral and physical distinctions of man--his origin.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCHAP. VII.  The soul and the spiritual system.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCHAP. VII.  The soul and the spiritual system.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCHAP. VIII.  The intellectual faculties derived from the faculty of\u003cbr\u003efeeling.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCHAP. IX.  The diversity of the intellectual faculties; they depend\u003cbr\u003eon physical causes, as do their moral qualities.--The natural\u003cbr\u003eprinciples of society--morals--politics.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCHAP. X.  The soul does not derive its ideas from itself--it has\u003cbr\u003eno innate ideas.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCHAP. XI.  Of the system of man's free-agency.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCHAP. XII.  An examination of the opinion which pretends that the\u003cbr\u003esystem of fatalism is dangerous.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCHAP. XIII.  Of the immortality of the soul--of the doctrine of a\u003cbr\u003efuture state--of the fear of death.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCHAP. XIV.  Education, morals, and the laws suffice to restrain\u003cbr\u003eman--of the desire of immortality--of suicide.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCHAP. XV.  Of man's true interest, or of the ideas he forms to\u003cbr\u003ehimself of happiness.--Man cannot be happy without virtue.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCHAP. XVI.  The errors of man.--Upon what constitutes happiness.--\u003cbr\u003eThe true source of his evils.--Remedies that may be applied.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCHAP. XVII.  Those ideas which are true, or founded upon Nature,\u003cbr\u003eare the only remedies for the evil of man.--Recapitulation.--\u003cbr\u003eConclusions of the First Part.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePREFACE\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e_The source of man's unhappiness is his ignorance of Nature. The\u003cbr\u003epertinacity with which he clings to blind opinions imbibed in his\u003cbr\u003einfancy, which interweave themselves with his existence, the consequent\u003cbr\u003eprejudice that warps his mind, that prevents its expansion, that renders\u003cbr\u003ehim the slave of fiction, appears to doom him to continual error. He\u003cbr\u003eresembles a child destitute of experience, full of ideal notions: a\u003cbr\u003edangerous leaven mixes itself with all his knowledge: it is of necessity\u003cbr\u003eobscure, it is vacillating and false:--He takes the tone of his ideas on\u003cbr\u003ethe authority of others, who are themselves in error, or else have an\u003cbr\u003einterest in deceiving him. To remove this Cimmerian darkness, these\u003cbr\u003ebarriers to the improvement of his condition; to disentangle him from\u003cbr\u003ethe clouds of error that envelope him; to guide him out of this Cretan\u003cbr\u003elabyrinth, requires the clue of Ariadne, with all the love she could\u003cbr\u003ebestow on Theseus. It exacts more than common exertion; it needs a most\u003cbr\u003edetermined, a most undaunted courage--it is never effected but by a\u003cbr\u003epersevering resolution to act, to think for himself; to examine with\u003cbr\u003erigour and impartiality the opinions he has adopted. He will find that\u003cbr\u003ethe most noxious weeds have sprung up beside beautiful flowers; entwined\u003cbr\u003ethemselves around their stems, overshadowed them with an exuberance of\u003cbr\u003efoliage, choaked the ground, enfeebled their growth, diminished their\u003cbr\u003epetals; dimmed the brilliancy of their colours; that deceived by their\u003cbr\u003eapparent freshness of their verdure, by the rapidity of their\u003cbr\u003eexfoliation, he has given them cultivation, watered them, nurtured them,\u003cbr\u003ewhen he ought to have plucked out their very roots.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eMan seeks to range out of his sphere: notwithstanding the reiterated\u003cbr\u003echecks his ambitious folly experiences, he still attempts the\u003cbr\u003eimpossible; strives to carry his researches beyond the visible world;\u003cbr\u003eand hunts out misery in imaginary regions. He would be a metaphysician\u003cbr\u003ebefore he has become a practical philosopher. He quits the contemplation\u003cbr\u003eof realities to meditate on chimeras. He neglects experience to feed on\u003cbr\u003econjecture, to indulge in hypothesis. He dares not cultivate his reason,\u003cbr\u003ebecause from his earliest days he has been taught to consider it\u003cbr\u003ecriminal.","brand":"SAP","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47069682041072,"sku":"2940015719048","price":0.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/2940015719048","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}