 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 4021884Full view - About this book
 | Jabez Thomas Sunderland, Brooke Herford, Frederick B. Mott - 1889 - 608 pages
...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...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... | |
 | Washington Gladden - 1891 - 266 pages
...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...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... | |
 | Howard MacQueary - 1891 - 308 pages
...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...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... | |
 | Josiah Gilbert Holland, Richard Watson Gilder - 1892 - 976 pages
...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...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
...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...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... | |
 | Charles Barnes Upton - 1894 - 384 pages
...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...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... | |
 | 1894 - 384 pages
...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...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
...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...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... | |
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