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First and Last Things: A Confession of Faith and Rule of Life

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First and Last Things: A Confession of Faith and Rule of Life

Herbert George Wells

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Before he predicted the future, Wells audited his own beliefs. First and Last Things is his confession of faith and rule of life: metaphysics, the world of fact, skepticism of the instrument of thought, and the conduct that follows from it all. The great novelist thinking out loud about what he actually holds true. An honest mind doing inventory.

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74 chapters

  1. 1FIRST AND LAST THINGS
  2. 2A CONFESSION OF FAITH AND RULE OF LIFE
  3. 3INTRODUCTION.
  4. 4BOOK THE FIRST. — METAPHYSICS.
  5. 51.1. THE NECESSITY FOR METAPHYSICS.
  6. 61.2. THE RESUMPTION OF METAPHYSICAL ENQUIRY.
  7. 71.3. THE WORLD OF FACT.
  8. 81.4. SCEPTICISM OF THE INSTRUMENT.
  9. 91.5. THE CLASSIFICATORY ASSUMPTION.
  10. 101.6. EMPTY TERMS.
  11. 111.7. NEGATIVE TERMS.
  12. 121.8. LOGIC STATIC AND LIFE KINETIC.
  13. 131.9. PLANES AND DIALECTS OF THOUGHT.
  14. 141.10. PRACTICAL CONCLUSIONS FROM THESE CONSIDERATIONS.
  15. 151.11. BELIEFS.
  16. 161.12. SUMMARY.
  17. 17BOOK THE SECOND — OF BELIEFS
  18. 182.1. MY PRIMARY ACT OF FAITH.

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