The Works of Thomas Dick

H.F. Summer & Company, 1836 - Education

INTRODUCTIONRetrospective view of the state of mankindignorance of the dark ages	11

SECTION I	17

SECTION II	24

SECTION IV	46

SECTION VI	85

Preliminary remarks Summary of the external evidences of Christianity Evidence from	113

SECTION X	133

ON THE IMPORTANCE OF CONNECTING SCIENCE WITH RELIGION	149

The third commandment 92	92

The sixth commandment 99	99

103	103

The ninth commandment 106	106

The tenth commandment 112	112

A BRIEF SURVEY OF THE MORAL STATE OF THE WORLD	122

Mr Shepherds Letter to Lord Byron	125

Atrocities connected with war 129	129

Ignorance of the dark agesscarcity and high price of books	165

Circumstances which have occasionally led to the belief of spectres and appari	174

Explosions of steamenginesAccidents in Americaon the Liverpool Rail	183

Accidents which have happened from ignorance of the properties of the different gases	185

Grovelling conceptions of the Deity both in heathen and Christian countries Just con	1

CONTENTS	3

Pleasures of sense and of intellect The enjoyments of the ignorant and of the man	6

A knowledge of science would render mechanics c more skilful in their respective	60

76	76

68	122

8	11

61	61

68	68

ON THE BENEFICIAL EFFECTS OF KNOWLEDGE ON MORAL PRINCIPLE	71

CHAPTER III	84

Man destined to an eternal state Knowledge will be carried along with us into that state	85

nations 140	140

Malevolent dispositions as displayed in disfiguring the body 146	146

Necessity of Revelation Folly of discarding the Science of Nature from Religion	i

SECTION III	iii

ON THE INFLUENCE WHICH A DIFFUSION OF KNOWLEDGE WOULD HAVE ON	12

OF THE NATURAL ATTRIBUTES OF THE DEITY	13

SECTION III	29

VARIETY OF NATURE	37

ON THE GOODNESS OR BENEVOLENCE OF THE DEITY	52

GEOGRAPHY	63

GEOLOGY	73

Vague and distorted Conceptions in regard to the Employments of Heaven	80

Examples of DepravityBuonaparte	109

Illustration of the rate of motion in the heavenly bodies on the supposition that the earth	149

157	157

Title	The Works of Thomas Dick
Author	Thomas Dick
Publisher	H.F. Summer & Company, 1836
Original from	University of Georgia Libraries
Digitized	30 Dec 2021

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