title: Secular Wholeness: A Skeptic's Paths To A Richer Life
author: David Cortesi
description: David Cortesi was a programmer with IBM in the years before computers were personal. With the personal computer revolution he became a free-lance writer and magazine columnist, producing several well-regarded books including Inside CP/M and The Essential OS/2 Handbook. Returnng to salaried employment, he contributed to a number of technical manuals for companies such as Infomix, Novell, and Silicon Graphics (where he wrote the IRIX Device Driver Programmer's Guide).
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  # Is Life Worth Living?
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  ### William Hurrell Mallock
  
  
  This page formatted 2005 Munsey's.
  
  
  http://www.munseys.com
  
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  CHAPTER I. THE NEW IMPORT OF THE QUESTION.
  
  
  CHAPTER II. THE PRIZE OF LIFE.
  
  
  CHAPTER III. SOCIOLOGY AS THE FOUNDATION OF
  
  
  MORALITY.
  
  
  CHAPTER IV. GOODNESS AS ITS OWN REWARD.
  
  
  CHAPTER V. LOVE AS A TEST OF GOODNESS.
  
  
  CHAPTER VI. LIFE AS ITS OWN REWARD.
  
  
  CHAPTER VII. THE SUPERSTITION OF POSITIVISM.
  
  
  CHAPTER VIII. THE PRACTICAL PROSPECT.
  
  
  CHAPTER IX. THE LOGIC OF SCIENTIFIC NEGATION.
  
  
  CHAPTER X. MORALITY AND NATURAL THEISM.
  
  
  CHAPTER XI. THE HUMAN RACE AND REVELATION.
  
  
  CHAPTER XII. UNIVERSAL HISTORY AND THE CLAIMS OF
  
  
  THE CHRISTIAN CHURCH.
  
  
  CHAPTER XIII. BELIEF AND WILL.
  
  
  
  
  
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  IS LIFE WORTH LIVING?
  
  
  BY
  
  
  WILLIAM HURRELL MALLOCK
  
  
  AUTHOR OF 'THE NEW REPUBLIC