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. Science - Page 4011884Full view - About this book
| James Martineau - 1888 - 468 pages
...alleged, or is ever likely to allege, a sufficient reason for our accepting so dire an alternative. For my own part, therefore, I believe in the immortality...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... | |
| Jabez Thomas Sunderland, Brooke Herford, Frederick B. Mott - 1889 - 608 pages
...everlasting persistence of the spiritual element in Man is to rob the whole process of its meaning. For my own part, therefore, I believe in the immortality...of faith in the reasonableness of God's work." The metaphysical interpretation of Death to which we next turn, presses upon us the question, What is it... | |
| Charles Marsh Mead - 1889 - 500 pages
...meaning which appeals to our human intelligence.8 He avows his belief in the immortality of the soul " as a supreme act of faith in the reasonableness of God's work," and because to deny this persistence of the spiritual element in man " is to rob the whole process... | |
| Jabez Thomas Sunderland, Brooke Herford, Frederick B. Mott - 1890 - 676 pages
...to permanent intellectual confusion. For my part therefore I believe in the immortality of the soul, as a supreme act of faith in the reasonableness of God's work." It is most gratifying that the last word that comes to us from Robert Browning's pen, the close of... | |
| Josiah Gilbert Holland, Richard Watson Gilder - 1892 - 976 pages
...yet alleged, or is ever likely to allege, a sufficient reason for accepting so dire an alternative. For my own part, therefore, I believe in the immortality...act of faith in the reasonableness of God's work. From our point of view we can go further than Professor Fiske. We can hold immortality also a demonstrable... | |
| 1893 - 978 pages
...were destined to total destruction after a momentary existence. We may say with Prof. John Fiske : " I believe in the immortality of the soul, not in the...act of faith in the reasonableness of God's work." Or we may say, with Charles Darwin : "Believing as I do that man in the distant future will be a far... | |
| John Henry Barrows - 1893 - 838 pages
...when otherwise it would sink in confusion and hopelessness. " For my own part," says John Fiske, " I believe in the immortality of the soul, not in the...act of faith in the reasonableness of God's work." Man is God's creature, the evolution of his thought and the product of his love, and his instinctive... | |
| Jenkin Lloyd Jones - 1893 - 368 pages
...believe in the immortality of the soul, not in the sense in which I accept the demonstrable proofs of a science, but as a supreme act of faith in the reasonableness of God's work." He cannot believe that God made the world, and especially its highest creature, simply to destroy it... | |
| Walter Raleigh Houghton - 1893 - 1072 pages
...believe in the immortality of the soul, not in the sense in which I accept ihe demonstrable proofs of a science, but as a supreme act of faith in the reasonableness of God's work." He can not believe that God made the world, and especially its highest creal ure, simply to destroy... | |
| Jenkin Lloyd Jones - 1893 - 344 pages
...believe in the immortality of the soul, not in the sense in which I accept the demonstrable proofs of a science, but as a supreme act of faith in the reasonableness of God's work." He cannot believe that God made the world, and especially its highest creature, simply to destroy it... | |
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