The Destiny of Man Viewed in the Light of His OriginHoughton, Mifflin, 1884 - 121 pages Man's Place in Nature; Darwinism; Man is the Highest Creature on Earth; The Origin of Infancy; Dawning of Consciousness; Change in the Direction of Natural Selection; The Origins of Society and of Morality; Universal Warfare of Primeval Men; Method of Political Development; Natural Selection; Message of Christianity; Question as to Future Life. Copyright © Libri GmbH. All rights reserved. |
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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 colours 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 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...
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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.
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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.