 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.  Science - Page 408edited by - 1884Full view - About this book
 | 1884 - 666 pages
...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...as the refusal to believe that this world is all." U'e must refer to the little book itself for the line of argument which leads up to this credo. And... | |
 | John Fiske - 1884 - 142 pages
...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. Such a belief, relating to regions -quite inaccessible to experience, cannot of course be clothed in... | |
 | John Fiske - 1884 - 142 pages
...terms we must await that solemn day which is to overtake us all. The belief can be most quickly denned by its negation, as the refusal to believe that this world is all. The materialist holds that when you have described the^ whole universe of phenomena of which we can... | |
 | 1885 - 780 pages
...believe in tbe 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. . . . The future is lighted for us with the radical colors of hope. The dream of poets, the lesson of priest... | |
 | Richard Heber Newton - 1886 - 362 pages
...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." * How surprising such a testimony must be to *" Destiny of Man " ; pp. 30, 32, 31, 24, 76, 116. those... | |
 | 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... | |
 | Stedman, Edmund C. and Hutchinson Ellen M. - 1889 - 700 pages
...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. Such a belief, relating to regions quite inaccessible to experience, cannot of course be clothed in... | |
 | James Martineau - 1888 - 464 pages
...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. 113-116. CHAPTER II. DEATH IN ITS METAPHYSICAL ASPECT. THE Metaphysical... | |
 | James Martineau - 1888 - 424 pages
...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. 113-116. CHAPTER II. DEATH IN ITS METAPHYSICAL ASPECT. THE Metaphysical... | |
 | James Martineau - 1888 - 468 pages
...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 work1.' 1 The Destiny of Man, pp. 113-116. CHAPTER II. DEATH IN ITS METAPHYSICAL ASPECT. THE Metaphysical... | |
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