 I believe in the immortality of the soul, not in the sense in which I accept the demonstrable truths of science, but as a supreme act of faith in the reasonableness of God's work.  Science - Page 4081884Full view - About this book
 | 1893 - 180 pages
...the ages. We believe in immortality, as an eminent modern philosopher and evolutionist has said, " as a supreme act of faith in the reasonableness of God's work." Faith is thus at once the characteristic and the strength of finite intelligence. It is the divine... | |
 | John Mackintosh - 1893 - 476 pages
...our finite power of comprehension, a belief in the immortality of the soul appears to be requisite, as a supreme act of faith in the reasonableness of God's work. It seems to me, that only on such a view can the reasonableness of the universe maintain its ground.... | |
 | John Wesley Hanson - 1894 - 1232 pages
...believe in the immortality of the soul, not in the sense in which I accept the demonstrable truths of science, but as a supreme act of faith in the reasonableness of God's work." Man is God's creature, the evolution of Mis thought and the product of His love, and his instinctive... | |
 | John Wesley Hanson - 1894 - 1214 pages
...believe in the immortality of the soul, not in the sense in which I accept the demonstrable truths of science, but as a supreme act of faith in the reasonableness of God's work." Man is God's creature, the evolution of His thought and the product of His love, and his instinctive... | |
 | Charles Barnes Upton - 1894 - 384 pages
...believe in the immortality of the soul, not in the sense in which I accept the demonstrable truths of science, but as a supreme act of faith in the reasonableness of God's work."1 The general result, then, to which the thoughts which I have sought to express in these Lectures... | |
 | 1894 - 384 pages
...believe in the immortality of the soul, not in the sense in which I accept the demonstrable truths of science, but as a supreme act of faith in the reasonableness of God's work."1 The general result, then, to which the thoughts which I have sought to express in these Lectures... | |
 | Henry Reuben Rose - 1894 - 262 pages
...dire an alternative. . . . For my own part, therefore, I believe in the immortality of the soul ... as a supreme act of faith in the reasonableness of God's work." In the very nature of things, man must be immortal. If man were to sink back into nothingness, God... | |
 | Ian Maclaren - 1896 - 414 pages
...believe in the immortality of the soul, not in the sense in which I accept the demonstrable truths of science, but as a supreme act of faith in the reasonableness of God's work.' It is incredible that when the long evolution of nature has come to a head the flower should be flung... | |
 | John Watson - 1896 - 356 pages
...believe in the immortality of the soul, not in the sense in which I accept the demonstrable truths of science, but as a supreme act of faith in the reasonableness of God's work.' It is incredible that when the long evolution of nature has come to a head the flower should be flung... | |
 | Volney Streamer - 1897 - 248 pages
...terms we must await that solemn day which is to overtake us all. Copyright 1884, by John Fiake 181 The belief can be most quickly defined by its negation,...as the refusal to believe that this world is all. The materialist holds that when you have described the whole universe of phenomena, of which we can... | |
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