Book excerpt: This e-book brings together important and influential works by philosophers and religious writers. This carefully selected collection contains: Boethius The Consolation of Philosophy William James The Varieties of Religious Experience Thomas Paine The Age of Reason Paul Henri Thiery Holbach The System of Nature, or, the Laws of the Moral and Physical World Austin Holyoak Ludicrous Aspects Of Christianity Baruch Spinoza On the Improvement of the Understanding Hastings Rashdall Philosophy and Religion Edward Caldwell Moore Outline of the History of Christian Thought Since Kant Frances Power Cobbe The Scientific Spirit of the Age and Other Pleas and Discussions Herbert Spencer First Principles