 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
 | Andreas Bard - 1911 - 246 pages
...John Fiske, having exhaustively studied this great issue, sums up his conclusion: "For my own part, I believe in the immortality of the soul, not in the...act of faith in the reasonableness of God's work." To this confession of a modern scientist we add the statement of Germany's greatest philosopher: "The... | |
 | Charles Reynolds Brown - 1911 - 264 pages
...permanent intellectual confusion. For my own part, therefore, I believe in the immortality of the soul as a supreme act of faith in the reasonableness of God's work." Progress is the law of life. The story of the past is the record of the ascent to higher and ever higher... | |
 | 1898 - 1032 pages
...and move, and have our being." John Fiske is constrained by modern science to believe in immortality as "a supreme act of faith in the reasonableness of God's work." The scientific placing of man upon the throne as the head of creation, the goal toward which all things,... | |
 | 1914 - 614 pages
...everlasting persistence of the spiritual element in man is to rob the whole process of its meaning. For my part, therefore, I believe in the immortality of the...act of faith in the reasonableness of God's work. Seth, a professor of ethics of today, writes: "A belief in God is necessary to a belief in immortality.... | |
 | Henry Melville King - 1914 - 300 pages
...clear solution comes to solve it." Professor John Fiske, in " The Destiny of Man," says, " For my part, I believe in the immortality of the soul, not in the...act of faith in the reasonableness of God's work." Poets, philosophers, religionists, scientists, have all been lending a hand in the advocacy of this... | |
 | Wallace Nelson Stearns - 1914 - 112 pages
..."I believe in the Immortality of the soul," says John Fiske, "not in the sense in which I believe in the demonstrable truths of science, but as a supreme...act of faith in the reasonableness of God's work." But science has found a hint which like a broken strand suggests things hereafter. Evolution has found... | |
 | John Haynes Holmes - 1915 - 416 pages
...this which Dr. Fiske means when he gives us, as his credo, '' I believe in the immortality of the soul as a supreme act of faith in the reasonableness of God's work!" 1 VI Such is the answer which evolution, when thus interpreted, gives to the question of immortality.... | |
 | American Society for Psychical Research - 1916 - 806 pages
...that contradicts its possibility. Fiske's statement that he believed " in the immortality of the soul as a supreme act of faith in the reasonableness of God's work " is idiocy after saying it was inconceivable, unless he explains that the inconceivability is conditioned... | |
 | John Spencer Clark - 1917 - 594 pages
...317 Fiske closed his address with the following emphatic confession of faith : — "For my own part I believe in the immortality of the soul, not in the...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... | |
 | Peter Edward Kern - 1917 - 556 pages
...everlasting persistence of the spiritual element in man is to rob the whole process of its meaning. For my part, therefore, I believe in the immortality of the...truths of science, but as a supreme act of faith in the reasonabless of God's work. Seth, a professor of ethics of today, writes: "A belief in God is necessary... | |
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