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" 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. "
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Science, Volume 4

1884 - 652 pages
...believe in the immortality of the soul, not in the sense in which I accept the demonstrable tilths of science, but as a supreme act of faith in the reasonableness...as the refusal to believe that this world is all." We must refer to the little book itself for the line of argument which leads up to this credo. And...
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Science

1884 - 660 pages
..." 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...as the refusal to believe that this world is all." We must refer to the little book itself for the line of argument which leads up to this credo. And...
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The Destiny of Man Viewed in the Light of His Origin

John Fiske - 1884 - 144 pages
...alleged, or is ever likely to allege, a sufficient reason for our accepting so dire an alternative. For my own part, therefore, I believe in the immortality...act of faith in the reasonableness of God's work. Such a belief, relating to regions quite inaccessible to experience, cannot of course be clothed in...
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Manford's Magazine, Volume 29

1885 - 778 pages
...humanity, and lie announced ethical principles fit for the time that is coming. . . I believe in tbe immortality of the soul, not in the sense in which...faith in the reasonableness of God's work. . . . The future is lighted for us with the radical colors of hope. The dream of poets, the lesson of priest...
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Philistinism: Plain Words Concerning Certain Forms of Modern Skepticism

Richard Heber Newton - 1886 - 360 pages
...comprehended in its general outlines, we shall at length be able to catch some glimpses of his Destiny. * * * For my own part, therefore, I believe in the immortality...act of faith in the reasonableness of God's work." * How surprising such a testimony must be to *" Destiny of Man " ; pp. 30, 32, 31, 24, 76, 116. those...
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The New Princeton Review, Volume 2

1886 - 484 pages
...pleasure of knocking them down." Consequently, he professes his belief in the immortality of the soul, " as a supreme act of faith in the reasonableness of God's work," who would not, he thinks, " put us to permanent intellectual confusion." Throughout this reasoning...
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The Self-revelation of God

Samuel Harris - 1887 - 592 pages
...alternative. For my own p irf, therefore, I bnlieve in the immortality of the soul, not in tlu> S'-n.se in which I accept the demonstrable truths of science, but as a supreme art of fniih in the reasonableness of God's work. . . . According to Mr. Spencer, the divine energy...
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A Study of Religion, Its Sources and Contents, Volume 2

James Martineau - 1888 - 430 pages
...alleged, or is ever likely to allege, a sufficient reason for our accepting so dire an alternative. For my own part, therefore, I believe in the immortality...act of faith in the reasonableness of God's work." 1 The Destiny of Man, pp. 113-116. CHAPTER II. DEATH IN ITS METAPHYSICAL ASPECT. L'esprit etant le...
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A Study of Religion, Its Sources and Contents, Volume 2

James Martineau - 1888 - 464 pages
...alleged, or is ever likely to allege, a sufficient reason for our accepting so dire an alternative. For my own part, therefore, I believe in the immortality...supreme act of faith in the reasonableness of God's work V 1 The Destiny of Man, pp. 113-116. CHAPTER II. DEATH IN ITS METAPHYSICAL ASPECT. THE Metaphysical...
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A Library of American Literature...

Stedman, Edmund C. and Hutchinson Ellen M. - 1889 - 700 pages
...alleged, or is ever likely to allege, a sufficient reason for our accepting so dire an alternative. For my own part, therefore, I believe in the immortality...act of faith in the reasonableness of God's work. Such a belief, relating to regions quite inaccessible to experience, cannot of course be clothed in...
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