Is Life Worth Living?

Fenno, 1899 - 323 sider

CONTENTS	1

Or that it is only a high kind of happiness that can be shared	4

We cannot be sure that all its elements are permanent	8

But this contention is entirely false They were never before	17

Secondly the insignificance to which science has reduced	23

But this is absolutely false Buddhist positivism is the exact	29

What then is	40

all other prizes	44

As a matter of fact there is no possible object sufficient to start	167

If we state the positive system in terms of common life its vision	172

And a consideration of these will help us more than anything	178

But only that it will be realised if certain other prospects	185

Conscience still survives but it has lost its restraining power	191

The class of men to whom this applies is increasing and they	196

It is felt even by men of science	202

CHAPTER IX	208

But social health is nothing but the personal health of all	51

The modern positive school requires a great general enthusiasm	73

As we can learn explicitly from George Eliot	78

There is much that we have not got rid of embodied still in	84

Now all these three characteristics can be explained by religion	93

The positive moral end must therefore be completely divested	100

What has been said in the last chapter is really admitted by	103

But this is supposed to be true of one form of love only	104

The kind and not the degree of the love is what gives love	108

According to this view purity is simply a disease both in	116

Which will show us that all moral language as applied to love	122

Positivism by destroying these anticipations changes the whole	128

To do this we will take life as reflected in the mirror of the great	134

And also in degraded art just as well as in sublime art	139

And so will it be with life	145

For this last has no meaning whatever except as a form of con	152

Thus all the higher resources of positivism fail together	161

Thus all external proofs of God are destroyed	212

One or other therefore of their opinions is worthlesstheir	219

To which there are two alternative solutions	228

The positive school profess to answer this question both ways	234

What they really mean is 1st That the connection of conscious	237

But on the other hand it will force us if we believe in will	243

James Mills statement of the case represents the popular antire	249

A similar difficulty is the freedom of the will	257

We can see that this is an urgent question	265

And as such is losing all restraining power in the world	271

Her position is absolutely distinct from that of Protestantism	277

And through her infinite charity she does nothing to increase	283

Catholicism is misunderstood because the outside world confuses	289

The Church theoretically is a living growing selfadapting	295

And to Protestantism these discoveries are fatal	302

Even from amongst the wisdom of her bitterest enemies	309

CHAPTER XIII	315