Research area iii of vi
Philosophy & Metaphysics
Life, soul, prayer, fate, sin, salvation, spirit and death, each examined with the tools of physics, biology and plain reasoning.
- Chapters
- 9
- Plates
- 5
- Essays
- 0
- Terms
- 1

Chapters in this area
Drawn from every book in the library
Volume I · Topic 2
LifeThe three pages that decide the rest of the book.
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Volume I · Topic 3
SoulTwo pedestals hold up a very old trade. The author names them.
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Volume I · Topic 4
God & CosmosWhy, in the author’s cosmos, does the universe keep no account of right and wrong?
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Volume I · Topic 5
PrayerA crutch, a habit, or something else: the author decides in five paragraphs.
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Volume I · Topic 6
FateThe one word the author would keep from the whole vocabulary of fortune.
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Volume I · Topic 7
SinA mosquito, a goat, a tiger, an attacker: which killing is a sin, which a crime, and who decided?
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Volume I · Topic 12
SalvationWhat does Nirvana literally mean? The root changes the whole idea.
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Volume I · Topic 13
SpiritIf the spirit is transferable, what did the Upanishads mean by migration?
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Volume I · Topic 14
DeathThe law about funerals that the author thinks every government should pass.
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Volume IIChapters from Volume II (title to come) take their place here when it is added.
Plates
All plates in the AtlasEssays
Essays for this area are being written. The first will draw on the chapters above.
Key terms
- Brownstudy
- A reverie: musing, pondering or meditating, with a touch of sadness. The word of the book’s title.




