creator in Job.--The
Manicheans.--All things good by nature.--The doctrine of creation
demands that of the fall.--Original sin.--Forced abandonment of the
ideal.--The problem among the Protestants.--Pantheism accepted.--Plainer
scorn for the ideal.--The price of mythology is superstition. Pages
148-177

CHAPTER X

PIETY

The core of religion not theoretical.--Loyalty to the sources of our
being.--The pious AEneas.--An ideal background required.--Piety accepts
natural conditions and present tasks.--The leadership of instinct is
normal.--Embodiment essential to spirit.--Piety to the gods takes form
from current ideals.--The religion of humanity.--Cosmic piety Pages
178-192

CHAPTER XI

SPIRITUALITY AND ITS CORRUPTIONS

To be spiritual is to live in view of the ideal.--Spirituality
natural.--Primitive consciousness may be spiritual.--Spirit crossed by
instrumentalities.--One foe of the spirit is worldliness.--The case for
and against pleasure.--Upshot of worldly wisdom.--Two supposed escapes
from vanity: fanaticism and mysticism.--Both are irrational.--Is there a
third course?--Yes, for experience has intrinsic, inalienable
values.--For these the religious imagination must supply an ideal
standard Pages 193-213

CHAPTER XII

CHARITY

Possible tyranny of reason.--Everything has its rights.--Primary and
secondary morality.--Uncharitable pagan justice is not just.--The doom
of ancient republics.--Rational charity.--Its limits.--Its mythical
supports.--There is intelligence in charity.--Buddhist and Christian
forms of it.--Apparent division of the spiritual and the natural Pages
214-228

CHAPTER XIII

THE BELIEF IN A FUTURE LIFE

The length of life a subject for natural science.--"Psychical"
phenomena.--Hypertrophies of sense.--These possibilities affect physical
existence only.--Moral grounds for the doctrine.--The necessary
assumption of a future.--An assumption no evidence.--A solipsistic
argument.--Absoluteness and immortality transferred to the gods.--Or to
a divine principle in all beings.--In neither case is the individual
immortal.--Possible forms of survival.--Arguments from retribution and
need of opportunity.--Ignoble temper of both.--False optimistic
postulate involved.--Transition to ideality Pages 229-250

CHAPTER XIV

IDEAL IMMORTALITY

Olympian immortality the first ideal.--Its indirect attainment by
reproduction.--Moral acceptance of this compromise.--Even vicarious
immortal