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Substance and Shadow:

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OR MORALITY AND RELIGION

IN THEIR RELATION TO

LIFE: AN ESSAY UPON
THE PHYSICS OF

CREATION.

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Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1863, by

HENRY JAMES,

in the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the District of Rhode Island.

Riverside Press:
Stereotyped and Printed by H. O. HOUGHTON.

TABLE OF CONTENTS.

THE INTRODUCTION

CHAPTER I.

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Relation of Swedenborg to the Intellect. His staunch vin-
dication of human equality. The angels devoid of personal
worth. - Swedenborg's statements imply a profound Philosophy.
Its fundamental notion, the dependence of Morality. — Our

moral force a perpetual communication

CHAPTER II.

Moral life in order to spiritual. Kant and Swedenborg. —

Swedenborg's doctrine of the origin of Evil. His sincere tes-

timony to the actuality of creation. Infinite love necessarily

creative

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CHAPTER III.

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How the letter of Revelation degrades its spiritual contents.
-Time and Space constitutional conditions of our conscious-
- Natural Religion affronts the heart even more than the
The Divine perfection is eminently human

ness. -

head.

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CHAPTER IV.

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The Divine Humiliation. The creature must necessarily

antagonize the creative perfection. - Personality the true mar-

vel of creation. The creature's identity the prime interest of

creation. The practical obstacle to it in the nature of the

Revelation alone competent to the question

creature.

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