 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 4021884Full view - About this book
 | James Martineau - 1900 - 428 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 work.'1 1 The Destiny of Man, pp. 113-116. CHAPTER II. DEATH IN ITS METAPHYSICAL ASPECT. L'e=prit etant... | |
 | Sir William Robertson Nicoll - 1900 - 968 pages
...confusion. For my own part, I believe in the immortality of the soul, not in the sense in which I accept demonstrable truths of science, but as a supreme act of faith in the reasonableness of God's work." From the same argument Isaiah drew only the former of these two conclusions. To him the certainty that... | |
 | Lilian Whiting - 1901 - 432 pages
...find him definitely asserting, — "For my own part I believe in the immortality of the soul, iiot in the sense in which I accept the demonstrable truths,...act of faith in the reasonableness of God's work. . . . I feel the omnipresence of mystery in such wise as to make it far easier for me to adopt the... | |
 | 1901 - 502 pages
...believe in the immortality of the soul, not in the sense in which I accept the demonstrable proofs of science, but as a supreme act of faith in the reasonableness of God's work " — could not have found place in the pages of Cosmic Philosophy. Fiske may not have changed his... | |
 | Jabez Thomas Sunderland - 1905 - 144 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 ASPECT OF DEATH. The metaphysical interpretation of Death to which we next turn, presses... | |
 | Helen Philbrook Patten - 1906 - 292 pages
...of whom we were the transitory blossom has always been, always will be. Ernest Renan. my own part, I believe in the immortality of the soul, not in the...act of faith in the reasonableness of God's work. Who can tell but that this which we call life is really death, from which what we call death is an... | |
 | Charles Reynolds Brown - 1906 - 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 a record of an ascent to higher and ever higher... | |
 | 1907 - 300 pages
...believing any such thing. On such a view the riddle of the universe becomes a riddle without meaning. . . . For my own part, therefore, I believe in the immortality...act of faith in the reasonableness of God's work. JOHN FISKE . There are some who say that to live a high life here in the hope of immortality hereafter... | |
 | 1907 - 296 pages
...believing any such thing. On such a view the riddle of the universe becomes a riddle without meaning. . . . For my own part, therefore, I believe in the immortality...act of faith in the reasonableness of God's work. JOHN F,SKB. There are some who say that to live a high life here in the hope of immortality hereafter... | |
 | James Orr - 1907 - 510 pages
...Urtheilskraft, pp. 280-285 ; and Caird, Philosophy of Kant. ii. p. 501. 2 " For my part," says Mr. Fiske, " I believe in the immortality of the soul, not in the...act of faith in the reasonableness of God's work." — Man's Destiny p. 110. again, everything that strengthens our faith in a moral government of the... | |
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