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
| 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... | |
| Howard MacQueary - 1891 - 308 pages
...universe ; otherwise it is " confusion worse confounded." Hence we may hold, with Prof. John Fiske, that the more thoroughly we comprehend that process...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... | |
| Washington Gladden - 1891 - 266 pages
...any such thing. On such a view the riddle of the universe becomes a riddle without a meaning. .. . . The more thoroughly we comprehend that process of...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... | |
| Jabez Thomas Sunderland, Brooke Herford, Frederick B. Mott - 1891 - 616 pages
...fire-mist to man ; and this is the conclusion he reaches: — "The more thoroughly we comprehend," he says, "that process of evolution by which things have come...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... | |
| Josiah Gilbert Holland, Richard Watson Gilder - 1892 - 976 pages
...a vision that fades ? On such a view the riddle of the universe becomes a riddle without a meaning. The more thoroughly we comprehend that process of...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
...-the expression of a trust in God, that He will not 'put us to permanent intellectual confusion." 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... | |
| Charles Barnes Upton - 1894 - 384 pages
...following sober and forcible words by Prof. J. Fiske which give clear expression to my own conclusion : " The more thoroughly we comprehend that process of...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
...following sober and forcible words by Prof. J. Fiske which give clear expression to my own conclusion : " The more thoroughly we comprehend that process of...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
...a vision that fades? On such a view the riddle of the universe becomes a riddle without a meaning. The more thoroughly we comprehend that process of...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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