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
| George Galloway - 1919 - 252 pages
...and ' leave not a rack behind.' Hence an American writer — Mr. Fiske — has spoken of immortality as " a supreme act of faith in the reasonableness of God's work." You can only expect immortality on the score of rational justice, if, to borrow an expression from... | |
| David Heagle - 1920 - 232 pages
...everlasting persistence of the spiritual elements in Man is to rob the whole process of its meaning. For my part, therefore, I believe in the immortality of the...of faith in the reasonableness of God's work. " The greatest philosopher of modern times [Herbert Spencer] holds that the conscious soul is not the product... | |
| Charles Reynolds Brown - 1920 - 80 pages
...Immortality," p. 226. leetual 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." The chief obstacle which hinders the advance of this hope of future life lies in the inability of many... | |
| Charles Samuel Mundell - 1922 - 234 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 !" THERE IS NO DEATH "There is no death! The stars go down To rise upon some fairer shore, And bright... | |
| 1923 - 876 pages
...observation and patiently building up its structure of induction. "For my own part," said John Fiske, "I believe in the immortality of the soul, not in...act of faith in the reasonableness of God's work." Fiske here assumes no contradiction between faith and science; he rather suggests to the thoughtful... | |
| 1923 - 866 pages
...observation and patiently building up its structure of induction. "For my own part," said John Fiske, "I believe in the immortality of the soul, not in...act of faith in the reasonableness of God's work." Fiske here assumes no contradiction between faith and science; he rather suggests to the thoughtful... | |
| Charles Reynolds Brown - 1924 - 198 pages
...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." The chief obstacle which hinders the advance of this hope of future life lies in the inability of many... | |
| Harry Emerson Fosdick - 1926 - 344 pages
...ultimately shadowed and undone with a sense of unutterable irrationality and futility. As John Fiske said, "I believe in the immortality of the soul, not in...act of faith in the reasonableness of God's work." 200 3 LIMITATION OR LIBERTY ONE to whom religion is the breath of life is continually astonished at... | |
| 1926 - 818 pages
...unutterable irrationality and futility. As John Fiske said, "I believe in the immortality of the soul as a supreme act of faith in the reasonableness of God's work." THE ANATOMY OF JAZZ BY DON KNOWLTON FIVE years ago it was proper to loathe jazz. To-day it is the smart... | |
| 1898 - 594 pages
...and he quotes with approbation the remark of John Fiske that belief in the immortality of the soul is a " supreme act of faith in the reasonableness of God's work." The human soul is the final product in the process of evolution, and possesses therefore not merely selective... | |
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