 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 4011884Full view - About this book
 | 1914 - 614 pages
...bursts, a vision that fades? On such a view the riddle of the universe becomes a riddle without meaning. The more thoroughly we comprehend that process of...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 - 292 pages
...that incompleteness will come to completeness. John Fiske says: "The more thoroughly we comprehend the process of evolution by which things have come to...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 - 376 pages
...mighty goal, the evolution of the most exalted spiritual qualities which characterize Humanity. . . . The more thoroughly we comprehend that process of...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
...bursts, a vision that fades ? On such a view the riddle of the universe becomes a riddle without meaning. The more thoroughly we comprehend that process of...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 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... | |
 | Edward Increase Bosworth - 1922 - 112 pages
...find his existence snuffed out when he reaches the climax of desire for immortal occupation. " Now the more thoroughly we comprehend that process of...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... | |
 | Charles Samuel Mundell - 1922 - 234 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. (See The Destiny of Man, pages 115,... | |
 | Newell Dwight Hillis - 1900 - 116 pages
...bursts. \ vision that fades? On such a view the riddle of the universe becomes a riddle without meaning. The more thoroughly we comprehend that process of...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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