89173 7651W 2716

Copyright, 1904

BY DANA ESTES & COMPANY

Entered at Stationers' Hall

508928

Colonial Press Electrotyped and Printed by C. H. Simonds & Co., Boston, Mass., U. S. A.

243

248

251

CHAPTER

INTRODUCTION

I. THE FUNDAMENTAL CONTRADICTION OF HUMAN

LIFE

.

II. THE CONTRADICTION OF LIFE HAS BEEN RECOG-

NIZED BY MEN SINCE REMOTE ANTIQUITY

III. THE DELUSIONS OF THE SCRIBES

IV. THE

DOCTRINE OF THE SCRIBES SUBSTITUTES

THE VISIBLE PHENOMENA OF HIS ANIMAL

EXISTENCE FOR THE CONCEPT OF THE WHOLE

LIFE OF MAN, ETC.

V. THE FALSE TEACHINGS OF THE PHARISEES AND

OF THE SCRIBES DO NOT GIVE ANY EXPLA-

NATIONS OF THE MEANINGS OF ACTUAL LIFE,

NOR ANY GUIDANCE IN IT

VI. THE DOUBLING OF THE CONSCIOUSNESS IN THE

MEN OF OUR WORLD

VII. THE DOUBLING OF THE CONSCIOUSNESS IS DUE

TO CONFUSING THE ANIMAL LIFE WITH THE

HUMAN LIFE

VIII. THERE IS NO DOUBLING AND NO CONTRADIC-

TION: THEY APPEAR ONLY WITH THE FALSE

255

261

265

269

CHAPTER

IX.

X.

XI.

XII.

XIII.

PAGE

272

275

.

278

THE BIRTH OF THE TRUE LIFE IN MAN

REASON IS THAT LAW COGNIZED BY MAN, BY

WHICH HIS LIFE IS TO BE ACCOMPLISHED

THE FALSE DIRECTION OF KNOWLEDGE

THE CAUSE OF THE FALSE KNOWLEDGE IS

THE FALSE PERSPECTIVE IN WHICH OBJECTS

PRESENT THEMSELVES

THE KNOWABLENESS OF OBJECTS DOES NOT

INCREASE IN CONSEQUENCE OF THEIR MANI-

FESTATION IN SPACE AND TIME, ETC.

XIV. MAN'S TRUE LIFE IS NOT WHAT TAKES PLACE

IN SPACE AND TIME

XV.

THE RENUNCIATION OF THE GOOD OF ANIMAL

PERSONALITY IS THE LAW OF HUMAN LIFE 297

XVI. THE ANIMAL PERSONALITY IS AN INSTRU-

MENT OF LIFE

XIX. THE CONFIRMATION OF THE DEMANDS OF THE

RATIONAL CONSCIOUSNESS

301

304

306

XX. THE DEMAND OF PERSONALITY SEEMS IN-

COMPATIBLE WITH THE DEMAND OF THE

RATIONAL CONSCIOUSNESS

XXI. WHAT IS DEMANDED IS NOT A RENUNCIATION

OF PERSONALITY, BUT ITS SUBJECTION TO THE

RATIONAL CONSCIOUSNESS

XXII. THE SENTIMENT OF LOVE IS THE MANIFES-

TATION OF THE ACTIVITY OF PERSONALITY

SUBJECTED TO THE RATIONAL CONSCIOUS-

XXIII. THE MANIFESTATION OF THE FEELING of Love

IS IMPOSSIBLE FOR MEN WHO DO NOT

UNDERSTAND THE MEANING OF THEIR LIFE 327

XXIV. TRUE LOVE IS THE CONSEQUENCE OF THE RE-

NUNCIATION OF THE GOOD OF PERSONALITY

335