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
| Charles Reynolds Brown - 1911 - 264 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 would go far toward putting us to permanent intellectual confusion. For my own part, therefore,... | |
| Marion Le Roy Burton - 1913 - 264 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 - 1914 - 292 pages
...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 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... | |
| 1914 - 614 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 in which I accept... | |
| John Haynes Holmes - 1915 - 416 pages
...[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 persistence...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
...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." " The case may be fitly summed up in the statement that whereas in its rude beginnings the psychological... | |
| Peter Edward Kern - 1917 - 556 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 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... | |
| 1918 - 586 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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