 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 4011884Full view - About this book
 | John Michels (Journalist) - 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... | |
 | 1884 - 646 pages
...comprehend that process of evolution by which things have come to be what they are, the more we arc likely to feel that to deny the everlasting persistence...authority assures us, is a scientific reductio ad abaurdum. So, finding " no sufficient reason for our accepting so dire au alternative," our author... | |
 | John Fiske - 1884 - 142 pages
...expression of a trust in God, that He will not " put us to i permanent intellectual confusion." Now the more thoroughly we comprehend that process 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... | |
 | 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... | |
 | 1885 - 612 pages
...driven to the belief that the soul's career is not completed with its present life upon earth." '• The more thoroughly we comprehend that process of...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... | |
 | Samuel Harris - 1887 - 592 pages
...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 toward putting us to permanent intellectual confusion, and I do not ?ee that any one has... | |
 | James Martineau - 1888 - 464 pages
...vision that fades ? On such a view, the riddle of the universe becomes a riddle without a meaning.' 'The more thoroughly we comprehend that process 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... | |
 | James Martineau - 1888 - 424 pages
...vision that fades? On such a view, the riddle of the universe becomes a riddle without a meaning.' 'The more thoroughly we comprehend that process 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... | |
 | Stedman, Edmund C. and Hutchinson Ellen M. - 1889 - 700 pages
...expression of a trust in God, that He will not " put us to permanent intellectual confusion. " Now, the more thoroughly we comprehend that process 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... | |
 | Jabez Thomas Sunderland, Brooke Herford, Frederick B. Mott - 1889 - 608 pages
...to pass into a life of larger dimensions. This view Professor Fiske is quoted as confirming. " Tho more thoroughly we comprehend that process of evolution...in Man is to rob the whole process of its meaning. For my own part, therefore, I believe in the immortality of the soul, not in the sense in which I accept... | |
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