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
| Henry Van Dyke - 1896 - 484 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 has... | |
| Henry Jackson Van Dyke - 1896 - 514 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 has... | |
| George Harris - 1896 - 470 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 has... | |
| Newman Smyth - 1897 - 254 pages
...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 persistence...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 - 120 pages
...comprehend that process of evolution by which things lhave 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 part, therefore, I believe in the immortality of the soul, not in the sense on which I accept... | |
| Newell Dwight Hillis - 1897 - 122 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 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." * 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." 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... | |
| Newell Dwight Hillis - 1899 - 124 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 part, therefore, I believe in the immortality of the soul, not in the sense on which I accept... | |
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