Man's Destiny Viewed in the Light of His OriginMacmillan, 1884 - 121 pages An address before the Concord School of Philosophy, 1884. |
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Page 119 - Hallelujah ! for the LORD GOD OMNIPOTENT reigneth ! The kingdom of this world is become the kingdom of our Lord, and of His Christ ; and He shall reign for ever and ever ! King of kings, and Lord of lords ! HALLELUJAH ! — (Rev.
Page 118 - The future is lighted for us with the radiant colors of hope. Strife and sorrow shall disappear. Peace and love shall reign supreme. The dream of poets, the lesson of priest and prophet, the inspiration of the great musician, is confirmed in the light of modern knowledge...
Page 116 - For my own part, therefore, I believe in the immortality of the soul, not in the sense in which I accept the demonstrable truths of science, but as a supreme act of faith in the reasonableness of God's work V 1 The Destiny of Man, pp.
Page 42 - The Platonic view of the soul, as a spiritual substance, an effluence from Godhood, which under certain conditions becomes incarnated in perishable forms of matter, is doubtless the view most consonant with the present state of our knowledge.
Page 60 - Vision and manipulation, — these, in their countless indirect and transfigured forms, are the two cooperating factors in all intellectual progress." — John Fiske. Relative length Scatter sticks of different lengths on a table. Use one as a standard. Pupils select longer and shorter, and state what they have selected. After pupil selects a stick and expresses his opinion, let him compare the sticks by placing them together. This will aid...
Page 23 - Reckless of good and evil, it brings forth at once the mother's tender love for her infant and the horrible teeth of the ravening shark, and to its creative indifference the one is as good as the other.
Page 25 - Darwinian theory shows us distinctly for the first time how the creation and the perfecting of Man is the goal toward which Nature's work has all the while been tending. It enlarges tenfold the significance of human life, places it upon even a loftier eminence than poets or prophets have imagined, and makes it seem more than ever the chief object of that creative activity which is manifested in the physical universe.
Page 115 - The more thoroughly we comprehend that process of evolution by which things have come to be what they are, the more we are likely to feel that to deny the everlasting persistence of the spiritual element in man is to rob the whole process of meaning. It goes far toward putting us to permanent intellectual confusion, and I do not see that any one has as yet alleged, or is ever likely to allege, a sufficient reason for accepting so dire an alternative.
Page 38 - ... nearly or quite unattended by consciousness. The psychical life of the lowest animals consists of a few simple acts directed toward the securing of food and the avoidance of danger, and these acts we are in the habit of classing as instinctive. They are so simple, so few, and so often repeated, that the tendency to perform them is completely organized in the nervous system before birth. The animal takes care of himself as soon as he begins to live. He has nothing to learn, and his career is a...
Page 110 - With his illegitimate hypothesis of annihilation, the materialist transgresses the bounds of experience quite as widely as the poet who sings of the New Jerusalem with its river of life and its streets of gold. Scientifically speaking, there is not a particle of evidence for either view.