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" 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 its meaning. "
Science - Page 404
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Science, Volume 4

1884 - 652 pages
...more thoroughly we comprehend that process of evolution by which things have come to be what they arc, the more we are likely to feel that to deny the everlasting...authority assures us, is a scientific reductio ad abmtrdum. So, finding •• no sufficient reason for our accepting so dire an alternative," our author...
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Man's Destiny Viewed in the Light of His Origin

John Fiske - 1884 - 130 pages
...Now 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...in Man is to rob the whole process of its meaning. It goes far toward putting us to permanent intellectual confusion, and I do not see that any one has...
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The Destiny of Man: Viewed in the Light of His Origin

John Fiske - 1884 - 142 pages
...comprehend that process of evolution by which things have come to be what they are, the more we are fikely to feel that to deny the everlasting persistence of...in Man is to rob the whole process of its meaning. It goes far toward putting us to permanent intellectual confusion, and I do not see that any one has...
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The Andover Review, Volume 3

1885 - 612 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...in Man is to rob the whole process of its meaning." The author says that his belief can be most quickly defined by its negative, as the refusal to believe...
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The Self-revelation of God

Samuel Harris - 1887 - 592 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 the everlasting pei-sistence of the spiritual element in Man is to rob the whole process of its meaning. It goes far...
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A Study of Religion, Its Sources and Contents, Volume 2

James Martineau - 1888 - 424 pages
...meaning.' '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...in Man is to rob the whole process of its meaning. It goes far toward putting us to permanent intellectual confusion, and I do not see that any one has...
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A Study of Religion, Its Sources and Contents, Volume 2

James Martineau - 1888 - 464 pages
...meaning.' '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...in Man is to rob the whole process of its meaning. It goes far toward putting us to permanent intellectual confusion, and I do not see that any one has...
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A Library of American Literature...

Stedman, Edmund C. and Hutchinson Ellen M. - 1889 - 700 pages
...Now, 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...in Man is to rob the whole process of its meaning. It goes far toward putting us to permanent intellectual confusion, and I do not see that any one has...
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A Study of Religion, Its Sources and Contents, Volume 2

James Martineau - 1888 - 418 pages
...meaning.' '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...everlasting persistence of the spiritual element in 1 The Destiny of Man, London, 1886, pp. 62-65. w. Man is to rob the whole process of its meaning. It...
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A Study of Religion, Its Sources and Contents, Volume 2

James Martineau - 1888 - 416 pages
...meaning.' '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...everlasting persistence of the spiritual element in 1 The Destiny of Man, London, 1886, pp. 62-65. Man is to rob the whole process of its meaning. It goes...
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