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A. J. DOAN, PRINTER, 54 MONTGOMERY STREET.
1905.
CE. •R25
TABLE OF CONTENTS.
PART FIRST.
The Spirit of the Enlightenment.
I. Introductory.
1. Emancipation of Human Nature.
Independent investigation of Nature and Mind.
2. Freedom from Authority.
Moral self-determination, philosophical.
Rights vs. Authority, political.
3. Freedom from Tradition.
I.
2.
Establishment challenged.
Historicity ignored.
II. Hobbes' Politics,-Ethical.
Political Theory.
State of nature a state of war.
No justice prior to organized Society.
The Commonwealth.
Civil government and natural law.
Contract theory.
Divine right.
III. Locke's Theory of Toleration,-Political.
Civil rights.
Jurisdiction of magistrate.
Social contract.
Law and religious belief.
Christianity a religion of toleration.
PART SECOND.
Rationalistic Christianity in Toland and Tindal.
Point of transition.
Relation to Hobbes and Locke.
II. Toland. Christianity not Mysterious.
1. Locke's influence.
2. Prerogative of reason.
3. Theory of knowledge.
4. Conception of mystery.