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Title: First and Last Things

Author: H. G. Wells

Release Date: December 23, 2009 [EBook #4225]

Last Updated: September 17, 2016

Language: English

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INTRODUCTION.

BOOK THE FIRST. — METAPHYSICS.

• 1.1. THE NECESSITY FOR METAPHYSICS.
• 1.2. THE RESUMPTION OF METAPHYSICAL ENQUIRY.
• 1.3. THE WORLD OF FACT.
• 1.4. SCEPTICISM OF THE INSTRUMENT.
• 1.5. THE CLASSIFICATORY ASSUMPTION.
• 1.6. EMPTY TERMS.
• 1.7. NEGATIVE TERMS.
• 1.8. LOGIC STATIC AND LIFE KINETIC.
• 1.9. PLANES AND DIALECTS OF THOUGHT.
• 1.10. PRACTICAL CONCLUSIONS FROM THESE CONSIDERATIONS.
• 1.11. BELIEFS.
• 1.12. SUMMARY.

BOOK THE SECOND — OF BELIEFS

• 2.1. MY PRIMARY ACT OF FAITH.
• 2.2. ON USING THE NAME OF GOD.
• 2.3. FREE WILL AND PREDESTINATION.
• 2.4. A PICTURE OF THE WORLD OF MEN.
• 2.5. THE PROBLEM OF MOTIVES THE REAL PROBLEM OF LIFE.
• 2.6. A REVIEW OF MOTIVES.
• 2.7. THE SYNTHETIC MOTIVE.
• 2.8. THE BEING OF MANKIND.
• 2.9. INDIVIDUALITY AN INTERLUDE.
• 2.10. THE MYSTIC ELEMENT.
• 2.11. THE SYNTHESIS.
• 2.12. OF PERSONAL IMMORTALITY.
• 2.13. A CRITICISM OF CHRISTIANITY.
• 2.14-2.15. OF OTHER RELIGIONS.

BOOK THE THIRD — OF GENERAL CONDUCT

• 3.1. CONDUCT FOLLOWS FROM BELIEF.
• 3.2. WHAT IS GOOD?
• 3.3. SOCIALISM.
• 3.4. A CRITICISM OF CERTAIN FORMS OF SOCIALISM.
• 3.5. HATE AND LOVE.
• 3.6. THE PRELIMINARY SOCIAL DUTY.
• 3.7. WRONG WAYS OF LIVING.
• 3.8. SOCIAL PARASITISM AND CONTEMPORARY INJUSTICES.
• 3.9. THE CASE OF THE WIFE AND MOTHER.
• 3.10. ASSOCIATIONS.
• 3.11. OF AN ORGANIZED BROTHERHOOD.
• 3.12. CONCERNING NEW STARTS AND NEW RELIGIONS.
• 3.13. THE IDEA OF THE CHURCH.
• 3.14. OF SECESSION.
• 3.15. A DILEMMA.
• 3.16. A COMMENT.
• 3.17. WAR.
• 3.18. WAR AND COMPETITION.
• 3.19. MODERN WAR.
• 3.20. OF ABSTINENCES AND DISCIPLINES.
• 3.21. ON FORGETTING, AND THE NEED OF PRAYER, READING, DISCUSSION AND WORSHIP
• 3.22. DEMOCRACY AND ARISTOCRACY.
• 3.23. ON DEBTS OF HONOUR.
• 3.24. THE IDEA OF JUSTICE.
• 3.25. OF LOVE AND JUSTICE.
• 3.26. THE WEAKNESS OF IMMATURITY.
• 3.27. POSSIBILITY OF A NEW ETIQUETTE.
• 3.28. SEX.
• 3.29. THE INSTITUTION OF MARRIAGE.
• 3.30. CONDUCT IN RELATION TO THE THING THAT IS.
• 3.31. CONDUCT TOWARDS TRANSGRESSORS.

BOOK THE FOURTH — SOME PERSONAL THINGS.

• 4.1. PERSONAL LOVE AND LIFE.
• 4.2. THE NATURE OF LOVE.
• 4.3. THE WILL TO LOVE.
• 4.4. LOVE AND DEATH.
• 4.5. THE CONSOLATION OF FAILURE.
• 4.6. THE LAST CONFESSION.

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