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- Frontmatter
- PREFACE
- Contents
- ERROR
- CHAPTER I Preliminary Cautions, and Statement of the Subject
- CHAPTER II The Conditions of Corporeity, whether animal or spiritual
- CHAPTER III The probable Prerogatives of Spiritual Corporeity, as compared with Animal Organization:—the first of those Prerogatives
- CHAPTER IV The second and third supposed Prerogatives of the Spiritual Economy
- CHAPTER V The fourth of these Advantages
- CHAPTER VI The fifth and sixth hypothetical Prerogatives of the Spiritual Body
- CHAPTER VII The seventh probable Advantage of the Future Life
- CHAPTER VIII The eighth Prerogative, according to our Hypothesis, of Spiritual Corporeity
- CHAPTER IX The ninth Point of Advantage belonging to the contrast between Animal Organization and Spiritual Life
- CHAPTER X The balanced probability of Happiness or Misery, involved in the Physical Theory of another Life
- CHAPTER XI Probable point of contrast between the Animal and Spiritual Body, in the principle of their construction, respectively
- CHAPTER XII The Transition of Human Nature from Animal to Spiritual Corporeity, a natural, not a miraculous event
- CHAPTER XIII The Survivance of Individual Character, and of the Moral Consciousness
- CHAPTER XIV Correspondence between the Present and the Future Employment of the Active Principles of Human Nature
- CHAPTER XV Introductory to some Conjectures concerning the Correlative Construction, and Reciprocal Destinies of the Material and Spiritual Universe
- CHAPTER XVI The first Conjecture concerning the Material Universe, viewed as the theatre of an Intellectual System
- CHAPTER XVII The second Conjecture
- CHAPTER XVIII The third Conjecture
- CHAPTER XIX The general ground of Conjectural Reasoning concerning what is unseen or future
- CHAPTER XX On the Advancement of Pneumatology
CHAPTER XVII - The second Conjecture
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 07 September 2011
- Frontmatter
- PREFACE
- Contents
- ERROR
- CHAPTER I Preliminary Cautions, and Statement of the Subject
- CHAPTER II The Conditions of Corporeity, whether animal or spiritual
- CHAPTER III The probable Prerogatives of Spiritual Corporeity, as compared with Animal Organization:—the first of those Prerogatives
- CHAPTER IV The second and third supposed Prerogatives of the Spiritual Economy
- CHAPTER V The fourth of these Advantages
- CHAPTER VI The fifth and sixth hypothetical Prerogatives of the Spiritual Body
- CHAPTER VII The seventh probable Advantage of the Future Life
- CHAPTER VIII The eighth Prerogative, according to our Hypothesis, of Spiritual Corporeity
- CHAPTER IX The ninth Point of Advantage belonging to the contrast between Animal Organization and Spiritual Life
- CHAPTER X The balanced probability of Happiness or Misery, involved in the Physical Theory of another Life
- CHAPTER XI Probable point of contrast between the Animal and Spiritual Body, in the principle of their construction, respectively
- CHAPTER XII The Transition of Human Nature from Animal to Spiritual Corporeity, a natural, not a miraculous event
- CHAPTER XIII The Survivance of Individual Character, and of the Moral Consciousness
- CHAPTER XIV Correspondence between the Present and the Future Employment of the Active Principles of Human Nature
- CHAPTER XV Introductory to some Conjectures concerning the Correlative Construction, and Reciprocal Destinies of the Material and Spiritual Universe
- CHAPTER XVI The first Conjecture concerning the Material Universe, viewed as the theatre of an Intellectual System
- CHAPTER XVII The second Conjecture
- CHAPTER XVIII The third Conjecture
- CHAPTER XIX The general ground of Conjectural Reasoning concerning what is unseen or future
- CHAPTER XX On the Advancement of Pneumatology
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- Physical Theory of Another Life , pp. 222 - 265Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2011First published in: 1836