 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
 | Charles Barnes Upton - 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... | |
 | Henry Reuben Rose - 1894 - 262 pages
...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 anyone... | |
 | Henry Jackson Van Dyke - 1896 - 514 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 has... | |
 | Henry Van Dyke - 1896 - 484 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 has... | |
 | George Harris - 1896 - 468 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 has... | |
 | Newman Smyth - 1897 - 254 pages
...God, p. xxi. t Destiny of Man, p. 111. of evolution by which things have come to be what they are, the more we are likely to feel that to deny the everlasting...Man is to rob the whole process of its meaning."* Such, in brief, is the argument for our immortality which forces itself upon the minds of many thoughtful... | |
 | Newell Dwight Hillis - 1897 - 122 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 part, therefore, I believe in the immortality of the soul, not in the sense on which I accept... | |
 | James Lindsay - 1897 - 646 pages
...for our part, regard the true philosophy of religion as having borne a deeper feeling of persuasion that "to deny the everlasting persistence of the spiritual...in Man is to rob the whole process of its meaning." Even so unprejudiced a writer on this score as John Stuart Mill has expressed the possibility of such... | |
 | James Edward Cowell Welldon - 1898 - 368 pages
...(than that of animals) is claimed for man, on the strength of his higher nature." J And Mr. Fiske, " To deny the everlasting persistence of the spiritual element in Man is to rob the whole process (ie, the process of evolution) of its meaning." 2 For indeed the Immortality of the soul or spirit... | |
 | James Edward Cowell Welldon - 1898 - 368 pages
...(than that of animals) is claimed for man, on the strength of his higher nature." * And Mr. Fiske, " To deny the everlasting persistence of the spiritual element in Man is to rob the whole process (ie, the process of evolution) of its meaning." 2 For indeed the Immortality of the soul or spirit... | |
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