The Destiny of Man: Viewed in the Light of His OriginHoughton, Mifflin, 1884 - 121 pages |
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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 its meaning.
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 30 - It shows that when humanity began to be evolved, an entirely new chapter in the history of the universe was opened. Henceforth the life of the nascent soul came to be first in importance, and the bodily life became subordinated to it.
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 116 - 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 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 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 115 - Universe," slightly varying the form of statement, called it a supreme act of faith, — the expression of a trust in God, that He will not " put us to permanent intellectual confusion.
Page 103 - Man is slowly passing from a primitive social state in which he was little better than a brute, tt toward an ultimate social state in which his character shall have become so transformed that nothing of the brute can be detected in it.