 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
 | Sir William Robertson Nicoll - 1900 - 968 pages
...the riddle of the universe becomes a riddle without a meaning. 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. For my own part, I believe in the... | |
 | Frank Ballard - 1900 - 396 pages
...things have come to be what they are, the more we 1 Man's Dcsling, p. 115. THE SPIRITUAL REALM 309 .ire 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, iiiul I do not see that any one... | |
 | Lilian Whiting - 1901 - 432 pages
...instance of baseless assumption," he says, " that is known to the history of philosophy. . . . Now, the more thoroughly we comprehend that process of...in man is to rob the whole process of its meaning." We find him definitely asserting, — "For my own part I believe in the immortality of the soul, iiot... | |
 | 1902 - 406 pages
...together towards that flowering-time which we call death. — AMIEL. 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. — JOHN FISKE. Death's truer name Is Onward: no discordance in the roll And march of that eternal... | |
 | Charles Reynolds Brown - 1906 - 264 pages
...Fiske, one of the most distinguished interpreters of the evolutionary philosophy, in the last century : "The more thoroughly we comprehend that process of...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,... | |
 | Simon Somerville Laurie - 1906 - 448 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...in man is to rob the whole process of its meaning. It goes far to putting us to permanent intellectual confusion, and I do not see that any one has as... | |
 | Frank Ballard - 1906 - 632 pages
...have come to be what they are, the more we are likely to feel that to deny the everlasting permanence of the spiritual element in man, is to rob the whole process of its meaning. 1 But inasmuch as we are not bound, at Haeckel's word of command, to dismiss all theistic thought,... | |
 | James Henry Snowden - 1910 - 346 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... | |
 | Charles Reynolds Brown - 1911 - 268 pages
...too, endure. Hear the word of John Fiske, a distinguished interpreter of the doctrine of evolution, "The more thoroughly we comprehend that process of...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
...qualities, into the production of which all this creative energy has gone, to disappear with the rest! . . . 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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