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First and Last Things

by H. G. Wells

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  1. 1Introduction
  2. 2Book the First — Metaphysics
  3. 31.2. the Resumption of Metaphysical Enquiry
  4. 41.3. the World of Fact
  5. 51.4. Scepticism of the Instrument
  6. 61.5. the Classificatory Assumption
  7. 71.6. Empty Terms
  8. 81.7. Negative Terms
  9. 91.8. Logic Static and Life Kinetic
  10. 101.9. Planes and Dialects of Thought
  11. 111.10. Practical Conclusions From These Considerations
  12. 121.11. Beliefs
  13. 131.12. Summary
  14. 14Book the Second — Of Beliefs
  15. 152.2. on Using the Name of God
  16. 162.3. Free Will and Predestination
  17. 172.4. A Picture of the World of Men
  18. 182.5. the Problem of Motives the Real Problem of Life
  19. 192.6. A Review of Motives
  20. 202.7. the Synthetic Motive
  21. 212.8. the Being of Mankind
  22. 222.9. Individuality an Interlude
  23. 232.10. the Mystic Element
  24. 242.11. the Synthesis
  25. 252.12. of Personal Immortality
  26. 262.13. A Criticism of Christianity
  27. 272.14. of Other Religions
  28. 282.15
  29. 29Book the Third — Of General Conduct
  30. 303.2. What Is Good?
  31. 313.3. Socialism
  32. 323.4. A Criticism of Certain Forms of Socialism
  33. 333.5. Hate and Love
  34. 343.6. the Preliminary Social Duty
  35. 353.7. Wrong Ways of Living
  36. 363.8. Social Parasitism and Contemporary Injustices
  37. 373.9. the Case of the Wife and Mother
  38. 383.10. Associations
  39. 393.11. of an Organized Brotherhood
  40. 403.12. Concerning New Starts and New Religions
  41. 413.13. the Idea of the Church
  42. 423.14. of Secession
  43. 433.15. A Dilemma
  44. 443.16. A Comment
  45. 453.17. War
  46. 463.18. War and Competition
  47. 473.19. Modern War
  48. 483.20. of Abstinences and Disciplines
  49. 493.21. on Forgetting, and the Need of Prayer, Reading, Discussion an…
  50. 503.22. Democracy and Aristocracy
  51. 513.23. on Debts of Honour
  52. 523.24. the Idea of Justice
  53. 533.25. of Love and Justice
  54. 543.26. the Weakness of Immaturity
  55. 553.27. Possibility of a New Etiquette
  56. 563.28. Sex
  57. 573.29. the Institution of Marriage
  58. 583.30. Conduct in Relation to the Thing That Is
  59. 593.31. Conduct Towards Transgressors
  60. 60Book the Fourth — Some Personal Things
  61. 614.2. the Nature of Love
  62. 624.3. the Will to Love
  63. 634.4. Love and Death
  64. 644.5. the Consolation of Failure
  65. 654.6. the Last Confession

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