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" 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 401
1884
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The Gospel for an Age of Doubt: The Yale Lectures on Preaching, 1866

Henry Van Dyke - 1896 - 484 pages
...spiritual element in Han than we are called upon to throw away our belief in the constancy of Nature? 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...
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Moral Evolution

George Harris - 1896 - 468 pages
...Evolution expects that incompleteness will be brought to completeness. To quote Mr. Fiske once more : " 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...
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The gospel for an age of doubt. Yale lects. on preaching

Henry Jackson Van Dyke - 1896 - 514 pages
...spiritual element in Man than we are called upon to throw away our belief in the constancy of Nature? 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...
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Foretokens of Immortality: Studies "for the Hour when the Immortal Hope ...

Newell Dwight Hillis - 1897 - 122 pages
...bursts. % vision that fades? On such a view ttie 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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The Place of Death in Evolution

Newman Smyth - 1897 - 254 pages
..."Now the more thoroughly we comprehend that process * Idea of God, p. xxi. t Destiny of Man, p. 111. of evolution by which things have come to be what...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...
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Foretokens of Immortality: Studies "for the Hour when the Immortal Hope ...

Newell Dwight Hillis - 1897 - 120 pages
...without meaning. The more thoroughly we comprehend that process of evolution by which things lhave come to be what they are, the more we are likely to...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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Recent Advances in Theistic Philosophy of Religion

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...
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The Hope of Immortality

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...
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The Hope of Immortality: An Essay Incorporating the Lectures Delivered ...

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...
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Foretokens of Immortality: Studies "for the Hour when the Immortal Hope ...

Newell Dwight Hillis - 1899 - 124 pages
...bursts, w vision that fades? On such a view ttie 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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