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Religion.

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"To meet a want long felt, I have ventured to compose and publish this volume in the hope that it might help to familiarize American students with the writings of Auguste Comte and his French and English disciples. This is the first short essay which attempts to explain, in a popular way, the much misunderstood Religion of Humanity. I am painfully conscious of the many defects of this volume, hut my object will have been accomplished if I can succeed in attracting attention to a subject which I know is of the very highest human importance. The Conversations which follow were actual utterances, taken down by a stenographer, and but slightly altered in copy. The style is not as compact as if the "pen steadied the mind" during composition, but its informal character may help, perhaps, to make the subject understandable to plain people. Those who believe as I do, are firmly convinced that Positivism is the most important subject which can now engage the attention of human beings. It affords a solution--and, as we think, the only solution--of nearly all the problems now puzzling and distracting the race. For every question in Religion, Morality, and the relations of life it has an answer. It treats of God, Immortality, Duty, the Woman, the Labor, and the Government questions, from the standpoint, of the latest revelations of science"--Preface. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2008 APA, all rights reserved).

Positivism. --- religion (discipline)

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Christian dogmatics --- Didactics of religion

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These lectures (delivered before the Lowell Institute in Boston), though in part an extension of principles already presented by us to the public, we have thought it well to publish, both as developing the central doctrines of our intellectual constitution in new directions, and as more firmly establishing them in old ones. It may not be unserviceable to the hasty critic, nor unwelcome to the patient reader, to indicate at once the points in this discussion most important. We start with philosophy, seeking in the mind itself those ideas by means of which it groups and explains the facts of the physical and the spiritual world. The close of the second lecture presents a tabular arrangement of primitive notions, which contains the key of the method adopted. This presentation contains new features; and, if at the same time it be just, the fields of science, philosophy and religion are at once defined by it, and the grounds of controversy greatly narrowed. Science and philosophy, starting with certain common ideas, take up each of them distinguishing notions, and, moving along independent lines of inquiry, meet again in religion. The plan of the lectures and their merit, whatever this may be, centre here, and are commended to unsparing, yet fair and searching, criticism. If these lectures shall serve, even by a little, to deepen our impression of our powers, and our sense of hope in their handling, a chief object will be reached. We believe in the unspeakable elevation of our spiritual nature, and are willing often to shift the view, if so be, through clouds and mists, we may catch some more distinct prospect of those heights on which it is our earliest and latest effort to plant the feet of men. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2016 APA, all rights reserved).

Philosophy and religion. --- Nature --- Religious aspects.

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Inquisition. --- Inquisition. --- Religion and science --- Religion and science. --- History. --- Galilei, Galileo, --- Galilei, Galileo,