TRANSLATED FROM THE ORIGINAL FRENCH OF M. DE MIRABAUD
VOL. I.
CONTENTS
THE SYSTEM OF NATURE; OR, THE LAWS OF THE MORAL AND PHYSICAL WORLD.
DETAILED CONTENTS
PrefacePART I—Laws of Nature.—Of man.—The faculties of the soul.
—Doctrine of immortality.—On happiness.
CHAP. I. Nature and her laws.
CHAP. II. Of motion and its origin.
CHAP. III. Of matter—of its various combinations—of its diversified
motion—or of the course of Nature.
CHAP. IV. Laws of motion common to every being of Nature—attraction and
repulsion—inert force-necessity.
CHAP. V. Order and confusion—intelligence—chance.
CHAP. VI. Moral and physical distinctions of man—his origin.
CHAP. VII. The soul and the spiritual system.
CHAP. VII. The soul and the spiritual system.
CHAP. VIII. The intellectual faculties derived from the faculty of
feeling.
CHAP. IX. The diversity of the intellectual faculties; they depend on
physical causes, as do their moral qualities.—The natural principles of
society—morals—politics.
CHAP. X. The soul does not derive its ideas from itself—it has no
innate ideas.
CHAP. XI. Of the system of man's free-agency.
CHAP. XII. An examination of the opinion which pretends that the system
of fatalism is dangerous.
CHAP. XIII. Of the immortality of the soul—of the doctrine of a future
state—of the fear of death.
CHAP. XIV. Education, morals, and the laws suffice to restrain man—of
the desire of immortality—of suicide.
CHAP. XV. Of man's true interest, or of the ideas he forms to himself of
happiness.—Man cannot be happy without virtue.
CHAP. XVI. The errors of man.—Upon what constitutes happiness.—The
true source of his evils.—Remedies that may be applied.
CHAP. XVII. Those ideas which are true, or founded upon Nature, are the
only remedies for the evil of man.—Recapitulation.—Conclusions of the
First Part.