The Pamphlet Collection of Sir Robert Stout: Volume 35
Contents
- [front matter]
- [The Pamphlet Collection of Sir Robert Stout: Volume 35]
- Common Sense — by Thomas Paine
- The Devil's Sword Blunted; Spiritualism Examined and Condemned Out of the Mouths of Its Own Advocates — by M. W. Green
- Spiritualism Examined
- Introductory
- Spiritism: is Admitted by its Advocates to be Useless, Either as a Guide for Men, or the Revealer of New Truth p. 9
- That the Spirits are Deceivers, their Communications Utterly Unreliable and Contradictory, and Tending Backwards to the Heathenism of a By-Gone Age p. 12
- Its Contradictions p. 17
- The Impossibility of Identifying the Spirits : this Brightest Feature of Spiritism, is a Broken Reed to lean Upon, and Supplies no Comfort to the Friends of the Departed p. 22
- Its Teachings are Absurd, Irrational, and Irreligious p. 42
- It is Opposed to all Law; is Destructive of the Distinction Between Right and Wrong; and, as a Consequence, Destroys Moral Character p. 50
- The Dangers of Spirit-Mediumsiiip : it Destroys Individuality and Power of Self-Control, and is an Incentive to Crime p. 62
- Spiritism is Atheistical and Destructive of Moral Responsibility p. 81
- It is the Enemy of Marriage; and of Social and Domestic Happiness p. 90
- It is the Forerunner of Political Anarchy p. 105
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- In the Crucible: Being a Lecture — by M. W. Green
- Contradictions of the Bible, An Outline of two Lectures on the Bible, Delivered in the Queen's Theatre, Sydney, on October 17 and 31, 1875 — by John Tyerman
- Spiritualism; As a Destructive and Constructive System — by John Tyerman
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- Spiritualism as a Destructive and Constructive System. — A Lecture Delivered in Doughty Hall, London, on Sunday Evening, February 16, 1879
- To Investigators
- A Spiritualist Give's his Views on Religion
- Analysis of the Influence of Natural Religion — by George Grote
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- Analysis, &c. — Chapter I. — Preliminary Statements and Definition
- Chapter II p. 11
- Chapter III p. 15
- Chapter IV p. 37
- Chapter V p. 43
- Chapter VI p. 46
- Chapter VII p. 53
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Chapter VIII p. 56
- [chapter viii] p. 56
- Recapitulation p. 61
- Part II. — Catalogue of the Various Modes in Which Natural Religion is Mischievous p. 63
- Chapter I p. 64
- Chapter II
- Mischief I.—Creating Factitious Antipathy
- Mischief II.—Perverting the Popular Opinion—Corrupting Moral Sentiment—Sanctifying Antipathy—Producing Aversion to Improvement p. 76
- Mischief III.—Disqualifying the Intellectual Faculties for Purposes Useful in This Life p. 83
- Section I.—Disjoining Belief from Experience p. 84
- Mischief IV.—Suborning Unwarranted Belief p. 97
- Mischief V.—Depraving The Temper p. 100
- Mischief VI.—Creating a Particular Class of Persons Incurably Opposed to the Interests of Humanity p. 103
- "Is it Reasonable to Worship God?" — by Rev. R. A. Armstrong
- Some Defects in our present System of Education — by James Smith p. 69
- The Divine Origin of Christianity — by M. W. Green