 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 Henry Snowden - 1910 - 346 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 its meaning. It goes far toward putting us... | |
 | Charles Reynolds Brown - 1911 - 264 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 would go far toward putting us to permanent intellectual confusion. For my own part, therefore,... | |
 | Marion Le Roy Burton - 1913 - 264 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... | |
 | 1914 - 614 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 in which I accept... | |
 | George Harris - 1914 - 310 pages
...more thoroughly we comprehend the 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... | |
 | John Haynes Holmes - 1915 - 416 pages
...of evolution [says John Fiske, as the final result of his survey of the whole evolutionary process], 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. 1 To the evolutionist, therefore,... | |
 | James Henry Leuba - 1916 - 372 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." " The case may be fitly summed up in the statement that whereas in its rude beginnings the psychological... | |
 | Peter Edward Kern - 1917 - 556 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 in which I accept... | |
 | James Lindsay - 1917 - 554 pages
...can " (' Theaetetus,' 176 C). In line with all this, Fiske, from the study of evolution, came to say that to deny the everlasting persistence of the spiritual element in man, as the terminal fact, would be to rob the whole world-process of its meaning. Such a denial of spiritual... | |
 | James Henry Snowden - 1918 - 262 pages
...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 its meaning. It goes far toward putting us to permanent intellectual confusion, and I do not see that any one has... | |
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