CONTENTS OF NIGHT VII.
In the Sixth Night arguments were drawn from Nature, in proof of
immortality. Here, others are drawn from Man: from his discontent,
p. 117—from his passions and powers, 118—from the gradual
growth of reason, 118—from his fear of death, 119—from the nature
of hope, 119—and of virtue, 120, &c.—from knowledge, and love, as
being the most essential properties of the soul, 122—from the order
of creation, 123—from the nature of ambition, 124, &c.—avarice,
127—pleasure, 127.—A digression on the grandeur of the passions,
128.—Immortality alone renders our present state intelligible, 129.—
An objection from the Stoics' disbelief of immortality, answered,
129.—Endless questions unresolvable, but on supposition of our
immortality, 130, 131.—The natural, most melancholy, and pathetic
complaint of a worthy man under the persuasion of no futurity, 132,
&c.—The gross absurdities and horrors of annihilation urged home
on Lorenzo, 136, &c.—The soul's vast importance, 140, 141—from
whence it arises, 142.—The difficulty of being an infidel, 143.—
The infamy, 144—the cause, 144—and the character, 144, of an
infidel state.—What true free-thinking is, 145.—The necessary
punishment of the false, 146.—Man's ruin is from himself, 147.—An
infidel accuses himself of guilt and hypocrisy, and that of the worst
sort, 147.—His obligation to Christians, 148.—What danger he
incurs by virtue, 149.—Vice recommended to him, 149.—His high
pretences to virtue and benevolence exploded, 149.—The conclusion,
on the nature of faith, 150—reason, 150—and hope, 150—with an
apology for this attempt, 151.
