Index.

• ACTION of God upon this world 344 seqq.; of creatures influenced by God 355 seqq.
  
• AGNOSTICISM opposed to the voice of mankind 66 seqq.; religious consequences 76 seqq., moral consequences 81 seqq.
  
• ANGER, how far predicable of God 316.
  
• ANIMAL progenitors not the cause of the human soul 44, 131, 198 seqq.; dumb animals intended for man's use 390 seqq.
  
• ANSELM'S (ST.) famous proof 24 seqq.; objected against by Gaunilo 26; answer of the Saint 27; criticism of the argument 27 seqq.
  
• ANTHROPOMORPHISM, how to be avoided 101 seqq.; misrepresented by Spencer 106 seqq.
  
• APPETITE, natural and elicited 290 seq.; sensitive and rational 291 rational in God 291 seqq.
  
• ARISTOTLE on the cognition of immaterial things 17; on design in nature 47; on eternal motion 209 seqq.
  
• ATHEISM, theoretical and practical 76; dogmatic and sceptical [ib.]
  
• ATTRIBUTES of God 85 seqq.; fully discussed 233 seqq.
  
• AUGUSTINE (ST.) on the Beauty of God 343; on the power of His will 374; on man's knowledge depending upon God 462; on God's knowledge of an infinite multitude 470.

• BACON on God revealed in the world 47.
  
• BANNEZ'S view of premotion 281, 371 seqq.
  
• BAYLE'S false hypotheses on the origin of religion 68 seqq.; on conservation 352.
  
• BEATITUDE of God 314 seqq.; human intended by God 386 seqq.
  
• BEAUTY described 339 seqq.; its essence not sensible 340; God supreme Beauty 341 seqq.
  
• BEGINNING of the world possible 138 seqq.; of its chief processes 145 seqq.
  
• BENEVOLENCE of God 306 seqq.
  
• BEST, absolutely best creature impossible 124 seq. 467 Seq.; this world relatively best 125.
  
• BILLUART on the essence of God 330.
  
• BOETHIUS on Eternity 244; on Providence 382.
  
• BONALD on the origin of belief in God II.
  
• BONAVENTURE (ST.) on succession in spirits 144.
  
• BUFFON on wisdom manifested in organisms 190.
  
• BRUTES not the progenitors of man, as man 44, 131, 198.

• CAIRD on formative power 168.
  
• CANONS for the proper use of Divine names 101 seqq.; expressed in another form 234 seqq.
  
• CARPENTER on design in plants 49; on rudimentary organs 191; on the nature of man's soul 200; on natural laws 422.
  
• CAUSALITY advocated for all contingent existence 33 seqq.; principle of violated by Materialists 39 seqq.; and by Pantheists 115 seqq.
  
• CHANCE, strictly speaking, impossible 54,381 seqq.
  
• CHANGE not denoted by Creation 120; nor by volition either 302; absolutely impossible in God 238 seqq.
  
• CICERO on design in nature 47; on universality of religion 74.
  
• CIRCUMSCRIPTIVE existence 251; impossible in God 251 seqq.
  
• CLARKE (R. F.) on immateriality of thought 37; on objectivity of universals 87.
  
• CLASSIFICATION of creatures with God impossible 96 seqq., 101 seqq.
  
• CLEMENT OF ALEXANDRIA on universality of religion 64.
  
• CONCURRENCE OF GOD in the actions of creatures 355 seqq.; paraphrased by St. Thomas 356; natural and supernatural 357 seq.; mediate and immediate 358 seq.; moral and physical 359; not favouring moral evil 360 seqq; immediate concurrence fully explained 361; proved 365 seqq.; objected against 369 seqq.; whether it involves physical premotion 370 seqq. 439 seqq. See PREDETERMINATION.
  
• CONIMBRICENSES on succession in spirits 144.
  
• CONSERVATION exercised by creatures 348 seqq.; direct and indirect 350; of all creatures by God 350 seqq.; misunderstood by Bayle 352; objected against 353.
  
• CONTINGENCY of the world 117 seqq.
  
• COUSIN (VICTOR) on Creation 136, 214.
  
• CREATION defined and explained 109 seqq.; real 119 seqq.; accounted for 122 seqq.; objections against its conceivableness 216 seqq.; removal of a difficulty from the Infinity of God 137; possible to God alone 127 seqq.; free 135, 295 seqq., 301 seqq.; eternal creation not necessary 138 seqq.; objections against this statement 209 seqq; whether eternal creation possible 141 seqq.

• DARWIN (Charles) agnostic 182; his objections to the arguments for God's existence 182 seqq.
  
• DARWINIANISM, how far compatible with belief in creation 132 seqq.
  
• DECREES OF GOD, free 296; eternal and irrevocable 297 seqq.; objected against 298 seqq.
  
• DEFINITIVE existence in space 251; not predicable of God 252.
  
• DEPENDENCE OF CREATURES UPON GOD for their origin 118 seqq.; for their preservation 348 seqq.; for their action 355 seqq.; for their guidance 381 seqq.
  
• DES CARTES'S ontological proof 25; criticized 28 seq.
  
• DESIGN-ARGUMENT 46 seqq.; objected against 154 seq. 165 seqq. 182 seqq.
  
• DIERINGER on miracles 434.
  
• DISGUST, in what meaning attributed to God 317.
  
• DISTINCTION in God without composition 98.
  
• DIVISION of Divine knowledge 285 seqq.
  
• DURANDUS on Divine concurrence 368.

• EFFECTS reduced to a First Cause 34 seqq.
  
• EMOTIONS metaphorically attributed to God 315 seqq.
  
• END, primary, of the whole of creation 385 seqq.; secondary of rational creatures 386 seqq; of irrational creatures 389 seqq.
  
• "ESSE IN LOCO," what it means in the language of St. Thomas 251.
  
• ESSENCE of creatures 325; physical 326; metaphysical 327; physical of God 329; metaphysical of God 330 seqq; creatures composed of essence and existence 95; God not [ib.]
  
• ETERNAL creation not demonstrable 138 seqq; whether possible 141 seqq.; motion and evolution impossible 146 seqq.; man destined for eternal happiness 387 seqq.; eternal punishment compatible with God's attributes 405 seqq.
  
• ETERNITY explained 243; predicable of God 244; Boethius' definition 244 seq.; distinguished from time and [aevum] 246 seq.; objection 247 seqq.
  
• EVIL existing no proof against God's goodness 393 seqq.; three kinds of evil 394; metaphysical in any possible world 396; physical intended as means 398; moral hated by God 400; tolerated without prejudice of any Divine attribute 401 seqq.
  
• EVOLUTION cannot account for the origin of man [as man] 35 seqq.; how far admissible 132 seqq.; had a beginning 146 seqq.
  
• EXAMINATION of the basis of Spinozism 449 seqq.
  
• EXISTENCE considered in its actuality not multiplied 91; of God not immediately known 12 seqq.; not proved [a priori] 24 seqq; proved [a posteriori] 32 seqq. See GOD.

• FEAR not the cause of the universality of religion 69 seqq.
  
• FICHTE'S (J. G) fundamental dogmas about God 113 seqq.; his idealistic basis 206.
  
• FIDELITY a moral attribute of God 312 seqq.
  
• FLINT on design in nature 198 seq.
  
• FOREKNOWLEDGE OF GOD 265 seqq.; objections against His foreknowledge of our free actions 272 seqq.; explanation of this foreknowledge 279 seqq.
  
• FRAUD not the cause of universality of religion 69 seqq.
  
• FREE-WILL in man 42 seqq; its influence upon natural laws 266; its agreement with Divine foresight 272 seqq.; with Divine Concurrence 375 seqq; 440 seqq; free-will of God 135 seqq.; 296 seqq.; objected against 301 seqq.

• GAUNILO objecting to the argument of St. Anselm 26 seq.
  
• GERARD (J.) on Clodd's [Story of Creation] 50.
  
• GIOBERTI on immediate consciousness of God 13 seq.
  
• GLORY OF GOD the end of the world 386 seqq.
  
• GOD'S existence differently upheld by different philosophers 8 seqq.; not immediately knowable 12 seqq; not demonstrable from the idea of God 24 seqq; how to be proved 30 seqq.; argument from First Cause 32 seqq.; from design 46 seqq.; moral 62 seqq.; objected against by Traditionalists 149 seqq.; by Kant 152 seqq.; by Spencer 155 seqq.; by Mill 159 seqq.; by Lange 174 seqq.; by Mallock 177 seqq.; by Darwin 182 seqq.; by Spinoza 200 seqq., 459 seq.; by Fichte 205 seq.; by Hegel 207 seq.; by Mansel (utilized by Spencer) 214 seqq.; God's Unity 85 seqq. Infinity 98 seqq; relation to the world for its origin 109 seqq. immutability 238 seqq.; eternity 243 seqq.; immensity 249 seqq.; intellect and knowledge 256 seqq. (See FOREKNOWLEDGE); will and decrees 290 seqq.; omnipotence 319 seqq.; metaphysical essence 325 seqq. (See ESSENCE, TRANSCENDENTAL, TRUTH,
  
• GOODNESS, BEAUTY); action upon this world 344 seq.
  
• GOODNESS explained 337; God supreme Goodness 337 seq.
  
• GOUDIN on Divine Concurrence 372 Seqq.
  
• GRAND-CLAUDE on physical and metaphysical essence 326.

• HAMILTON on belief in God 12.
  
• HARPER on contemplation of God 342 seq.
  
• HARTMANN'S [Unconscious] 208.
  
• HEGEL'S fundamental dogmas about God 113; basis of his system 207 seq.
  
• HELLWALD on universality of religion 66.
  
• "HE WHO IS," the most proper name of God 333 seq.
  
• HOLINESS explained 304 seqq.; of God 306 seqq.
  
• HUME'S difficulty against miracles repeated by Mill 435 seqq.
  
• HUXLEY on chance-theories 54; on teleology in relation to the mechanical views of nature 56 seq.; on the bearing of science upon theological difficulties 67; on the possibility of Creation 123.

• IDEA, sense idea 37; intellectual idea [ib.]; the latter not accounted for by organic impressions 38 seqq.
  
• IGNORANCE of physical causes not the foundation of persistent belief in God 68 seqq.; whether opposed to the recognition of miracles 432 seqq., 437.
  
• IMMENSITY of God 249 seqq.
  
• IMMUTABILITY of God 238 seqq.; objected against 240 seqq.; 301 seqq.; of Divine decrees 296 seqq.; objected against 298 seqq.
  
• INFINITY, in what sense predicated of number and space 98 seqq; of God 100 seqq.
  
• INFLUENCE of God upon the origin of matter and mind 117 seqq.; upon the preservation of creatures 348 seqq.; upon their action 355 seqq.; supernatural influence through miracles 421 seqq. See CREATION, CONSERVATION, CONCURRENCE, PEEDETERMINATION, PROVIDENCE, MIRACLES.
  
• INSTRUMENT, whether possible in creation 129 seq.; in what sense all actions of creatures are actions of instruments 377, 446 seq.
  
• INTELLECT, a spiritual faculty 38 seqq.; Divine 256 seqq.

• JACOBI (F. H.) on knowledge of God II; on Spinozism 449.
  
• JANET on final causes 62.
  
• JUSTICE of God 309 seq.; coInpatible with existing evil 402 seq.; with eternal punishment 406 seqq.

• KANT on belief in God 10 seq.; on the principle of causality 32; on the impressiveness of the design-argument 50 seqq.; on the strength of the proofs for God's existence 152 seqq.; on the beginning of the world 212.
  
• KLEUTGEN on the ontological argument 29; on immanent aCtivity 302; on Patristic theology in its relation to ontologism 461.
  
• KNOWLEDGE falsely explained on materialistic grounds 38 seqq.; also on idealistic 205 seqq.; 224 seqq.; Divine knowledge 256 seqq. See FOREKNOWLEDGE.

• LAHOUSSE on self-determination 302.
  
• LANGE'S objection against design in nature 174 seqq.
  
• LEIBNITZ'S ontological proof 25; criticized 28 seq.; on design in nature 47 seq.; his optimism 467 seq.
  
• LEPIDI on Ontologism 24.
  
• LIBERATORE on Ontologism 24.
  
• LIFE in living creatures 313 seq. Divine 314 seqq.
  
• LUBBOCK on irreligious tribes, refuted 64 seqq.

• MAHER on the nature of the soul and free-will 37; on brutes 198.
  
• MALEBRANCHE, ontologist 13; optimist 468 seq.
  
• MALLOCK on design in nature's working, &c., 177 seqq.
  
• MANSEL on belief in God 12; on contradictions in the idea of God 214 seqq.
  
• MATTER cannot evolve a human soul 38 seqq.; depends for its origin upon God 118; has been created immediately 131 seqq. not necessarily from eternity 138 seqq.; did not move from eternity 145 seqq., 209 seqq.
  
• MERCY of God 308 seq.; compatible with eternal punishment 409 seqq.
  
• METAPHORICAL language of God suggestive of real truth 105 seqq.; unreasonably suspected of anthropomorphism 318.
  
• METAPHYSICAL simplicity of God 94 seqq.; essence of God 325 seqq; evil 394, 396.
  
• MAX MÜLLER on Deus, Theos, Deva 1.
  
• MILL (J. H.) on creation by intelligence 48, 122 seq.; his inference from Conservation of Energy 55 on unity in nature 89; against the proof of a First Cause 159 seqq.; against the design-argument 165 seqq.
  
• MIND, immaterial 38 seqq.; created out of nothing 131.
  
• MIRACLES according to the definition of St. Thomas 412 seqq.; modern definition 417 seqq.; division 419; objection against this division 420 seq.; possilility of miracles 421 seqq.; objections against their possibility 424 seqq.; miracles knowable 427 seqq. Criteria 432 seqq.; objection of Home 435 seqq.; another objection 437.
  
• MIVART on design in nature 49; on nature's end 58; on breaks of continuity in nature 59; on Spencer's psychology 158; on rudimentary organs 190; on the difference between man and brute 199.
  
• MOLINA on supercomprehension of free acts 282; his merit and mistake 283 seq.; his illustration of Divine concurrence 376 seqq.
  
• MOLINIST teaching on Divine foresight 279 seqq; modified by Suarez 283 seqq.; on Divine concurrence 355 seqq.; on Divine premotion 374 seqq.; in agreement with St. Thomas 439 seqq.
  
• MONISM, materialistic refuted 38 seqq.; pantheistic 112 seqq. 200 seqq. 205 seqq. 449 seqq.
  
• MORAL proof of God's existence 62 seqq.; objected against by Darwin 195 seq.; attributes of God 304 seqq.
  
• MORALITY injured by agnosticism 81 seqq.; by Pantheism 116 seq.

• NEGATIVE-POSITIVE character of our idea of God 19; 230 seqq.
  
• NEWMAN (Cardinal) on implicit and explicit reason 72 seq.; On the Divine life 315.
  
• NEWTON on design in nature 48; on the presence of God 253.

• OMNIPOTENCE of God 319 seqq.; objected against by Mill 170 seqq; other objections 322 seqq.
  
• ONTOLOGICAL arguments discussed 24 seqq.
  
• ONTOLOGISM refuted 12 seqq.
  
• OPTIMISM, how far true 124 seq. exaggerated 467 seqq.; opinion of St. Thomas 470 seq.
  
• ORDER of the world originated by intelligence 46 seq.
  
• ORIGIN of the world 118 seqq. See CREATION.

• PAGET on rudimentary organs 191.
  
• PALEY commented upon by Darwin 182 seqq.
  
• PANTHEISM, modern in general 112 seqq; of Spinoza 200 seqq. 449 seqq; of Fiebte 205 seqq.; of Hegel 207 seq.
  
• PECCI (Card.) on predetermination 281 seq.
  
• PERSONALITY of God proved 35 seqq.; predicable without anthropomorphism 227 seqq.
  
• PESCH (Ch.) on the notion of God among heathens 90.
  
• PESCH (T) on succession in spirits 144; on the definition of miracles 417.
  
• PESCHEL (Oskar) on universality of religion 65.
  
• PHYSICAL proof of God's existence 46 seqq. (see DESIGN); premotion (see PREDETERMINATION and PREMOTION.)
  
• PLATO on design in nature 47.
  
• PLUTARCH on universality of religion 63.
  
• POSSIBLE things why known by God 264.
  
• POWER of God 319 seqq.
  
• PREDETERMINATION, physical pr. how understood by Bannez and his followers 281; how opposed by Molina 282; by Suarezian Molinists 283 seq.; reasons for it 373 seq.; these reasons not cogent 374 seqq.; reasons against it 379 seq.; doctrine of St. Thomas 439 seqq.
  
• PREMOTION, how far admissible 374 seqq. 446 seqq.
  
• PROVIDENCE explained 381 seqq.; proved 383 seqq; its relation to evil 393 seqq.

• RELATIVITY of knowledge interpreted by Mansel 224 seqq.
  
• REPENTANCE, in what sense predicable of God 316 seq.
  
• RICKABY (John) on scepticism 33; on idealism 206; on belief in human testimony 432.
  
• ROSKOFF (Gustav) on universality of religion 65.
  
• ROSMINI on God apprehended as being 14; on the perfection of this world 469 seqq.
  
• RUDIMENTARY Organs, whether opposed to design 187 seqq.
  
• RULE (Martin) on the argument of St. Anselm 29.

• SANCTIFYING GRACE, why not a miraculous effect 416 seq.
  
• SCHELLING's dogmas on the Absolute 113 seqq.
  
• SCHOPENHAUER S world-will 208.
  
• SCIENTIA MEDIA explained 279 seqq.; named and defined 289.
  
• SCIENTIA SIMPLICIS INTELLIGENTLE 288.
  
• SCIENTIA VISIONIS 288.
  
• SCOTUS on the essence of God 330.
  
• SELF-CONCEIT impossible in God 293.
  
• SELF-CONSCIOUSNESS an immaterial act 41; in God infinitely perfect 263 seq.; objection of Spencer 270 seq.
  
• SELF-DETERMINATION in general 302 seq.; of God 303 seq. of man, God concurring 364 seqq.
  
• SELF-ESTEEM in God 294.
  
• SELF-EXISTENCE proved 32 seqq.; only one 85 seqq.; objected against by Spencer 155 seqq. by Mill 159 seqq.
  
• SELFISHNESS in God impossible 293.
  
• SELF-LOVE infinite and necessary in God 294.
  
• SIEMENS (Sir William) on design in nature 50.
  
• SIMPLICITY distinguished from unity 92; physical of God 93; metaphysical 94 seqq.
  
• SPACE, whether infinite 99; its nature explained 250.
  
• SPECIES (intelligible) of the Divine Intellect 260 seqq.
  
• SPENCER on the nature of intellectual ideas 39; on the impossibility to classify the Infinite 96 seqq.; on anthropomorphism 106 seqq.; on the impossibility to conceive self-existence 155 seqq.; on Mansel's reasonings 216; on the impossibility of self-consciousness 270.
  
• SPINOZA'S fundamental errors 113 seqq; his proof of one substance 200 seqq.; his objections against miracles 425 seqq.; examination of his first six propositions 449 seqq.
  
• SPIRITS (Angels) whether they can work miracles 429 Seqq.
  
• SPIRITUALITY of the human soul 35 seqq.
  
• STÖCKL on Ontologism 24; on Anaxagoras 47; on Bacon 47.
  
• STRAUSS against miracles 427.
  
• SUAREZ on Divine foreknowledge 283 seqq.; on immanent action 302; on miracles 435
  
• SUBSTANCE according to Spinoza 200 seqq.; one self-existing 85 seqq. many contingent substances possible 264; also actual 112 seqq.
  
• SUFFERINGS, how explained by Darwin 192 seq.; objected against Darwin 193 seq.; their relation to Providence 398 seq.

• THEOLOGY etymologically explained 1; natural defined 2 dogmatic explained 2 seq ;relation of the one to the other 3 seq.; importance of natural 5 seq.
  
• THOMAS AQUINAS (St) on knowledge of immaterial things 17 on the eternity of universal ideas 23; on the argument of St. Anselm 29; on the proof from design 47; 00 the objectivity of a universal nature 86; on community of Divine and human nature 87; on the oneness of self-existence 91; on infinite number 99; on infinite dimensions [ib.]; on the import of Divine names 104, 106, 237; on the meaning of Creation 110, 111; why Creation possible to God alone 128; what it is that makes creatures loveable 137; against Traditionalism 149 seq. on intuition of God 226; on the difference between [time, aevum, eternity] 246; on the way in which the soul is in the body 251; on God's immensity 253, 255; on the identity of Divine Thought and Substance 259, 261; on Divine foreknowledge 276; on the connection between Divine Intellect and Will 292; on immanent action 302; on passions as predicated of God 316; on Divine power 321; on "Essence" 329; on the name "He who is" 334 Seq.; on goodness 338 seq.; on beauty 340; on Divine conservation 351, 353 seq.; on Divine concurrence 356, 439 seq.; on free-will 441 seq.; on self-consciousness of Angels 366; on Divine Providence 382; on Hell-fire 409; on God's mercy as shown in Hell 410; on miracles 413, 418, 420, 426, 431 00 magic arts 434; on indeterminate knowledge of self and God 463 seq.; on optimism 470 seq.
  
• THOMSON (Sir William) on Design 50.
  
• TRADITIONALISTS on the knowledge of God 11; against the demonstrability 149 seqq.
  
• TEANSCENDENTAL attributes of God 335 seqq.
  
• TRINITY compared as Dogma with God's unity 86 seqq.; with His simplicity 98.
  
• TRUTH, meaning and divisions 336; God supreme Truth 336 seq.
  
• TYLOR on universality of religion 65.

• UBAGHS, ontologist 14, 18 seq.
  
• UNITY of God 85 seqq; how connected with Infinity 100, 465 seq.
  
• UNIVERSALS misconceived by ontologists 23; by Hegel 207.
  
• UNIVERSE (The) depends upon God for its origin 18 seqq.; for its preservation 348 seqq.; for the constancy of its energy 355 seqq; for its end 383 seqq.

• VERACITY of God 310 seqq.
  
• VOLTAIRE against miracles 427.

• WALLACE (A. R.) on the nature of the human soul 44 seq.; on the existence of a world of spirit 49.
  
• WILL free in man 42 seqq.; Divine existing 290 seq.; necessity and freedom of the Divine 290 seqq.; objected against 301 seqq. decrees of the Divine irrevocable 297 seq.; objected against 298 seqq.; holiness of the Divine 304 seq.; object of the Divine in Creation 385 seqq.
  
• WORLD not absolutely best 124, 467 seqq.; relatively best 125.

• ZIGLIARA (Card.) on Ontologism 24; on the beginning of this world 148; on freedom undel physical premotion 282.

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