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 4081884Full view - About this book
| James Martineau - 1888 - 432 pages
...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 1 The Destiny of Man, London, 1886, pp. 62-65. Man is to rob the whole process of its meaning. It goes... | |
| James Martineau - 1888 - 416 pages
...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 1 The Destiny of Man, London, 1886, pp. 62-65. Man is to rob the whole process of its meaning. It goes... | |
| Jabez Thomas Sunderland, Brooke Herford, Frederick B. Mott - 1889 - 608 pages
...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...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... | |
| Charles Marsh Mead - 1889 - 496 pages
...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 [of evolution] of its meaning." * So then God's work has a " meaning which appeals to our intelligence... | |
| Jabez Thomas Sunderland, Brooke Herford, Frederick B. Mott - 1890 - 676 pages
...history of Philosophy. On such a view the riddle of the universe becomes a riddle without meaning. To deny the everlasting persistence of the spiritual element in man is to rob the whole process of evolution of its meaning. It goes far toward putting us to permanent intellectual confusion. For my... | |
| Howard MacQueary - 1891 - 308 pages
...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...in man is to rob the whole process of its meaning. Such a crowning wonder (as the soul's immortality) seems no more than the fit climax to a creative... | |
| Washington Gladden - 1891 - 266 pages
...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...in man is to rob the whole process of its meaning." * I have thus endeavoured to set before you the question of immortality as it stands related to modern... | |
| Josiah Gilbert Holland, Richard Watson Gilder - 1892 - 976 pages
...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...spiritual element in man is to rob the whole process of meaning. It goes far toward putting us to permanent intellectual confusion, and I do not see that any... | |
| Alexander Richard Eagar - 1893 - 234 pages
...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...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... | |
| 1894 - 384 pages
...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...in man is to rob the whole process of its meaning. It goes far towards putting us to permanent intellectual confusion, and I do not see that any one has... | |
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