 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
 | Alexander Balmain Bruce - 1897 - 368 pages
...the soul, not in the sense in which I 1 Evolution and Ethics, p. 85. accept the demonstrable truths of science, but as a supreme act of faith in the reasonableness of God's work.' 1 He professes himself unable to believe that God made the world, and especially its highest creature,... | |
 | Newell Dwight Hillis - 1897 - 122 pages
...believe in the immortality of the soul, not in the sense on which I accept the demonstrable truths of science, but .. as a supreme act of faith in the reasonableness of God's work." Thus we see that Science also has become a prophet of faith. Centuries ago Socrates affirmed that immortality... | |
 | Newell Dwight Hillis - 1897 - 122 pages
...immortality of the soul, not in the sense on which I accept the demonstrable truths of science, but 96 as a supreme act of faith in the reasonableness of God's work. " Thus we see that Science also has become a prophet of faith. Centuries ago Socrates affirmed that... | |
 | Newman Smyth - 1897 - 254 pages
...Destiny of Man. * Essays upon Heredity, I., p. 161. He accepts the belief in the immortality of the soul as "a supreme act of faith in the reasonableness of God's work. " * He was led to this supreme act of faith through the revelation, which finally came to him in his... | |
 | Lewis Pyle Mercer - 1898 - 372 pages
...believe in the immortality of the soul, not in the sense in which I accept the demonstrable proofs of a science, but as a supreme act of faith in the reasonableness of God's work.' He can not believe that God made the world, and especially its highest creature, simply to destroy... | |
 | Newell Dwight Hillis - 1899 - 124 pages
...believe in the immortality of the soul, not in the sense on which I accept the demonstrable truths of science, but as a supreme act of faith in the reasonableness of God's work." Thus we see that Science also has become a prophet of faith. Centuries ago Socrates affirmed that immortality... | |
 | Newell Dwight Hillis - 1899 - 120 pages
...immortality of the soul, not in the sense on which I accept the demonstrable truths of science, but 96 as a supreme act of faith in the reasonableness of God's work." Thus we see that Science also has become a prophet of faith. Centuries ago Socrates affirmed that immortality... | |
 | Charles Wesley Rishell - 1899 - 654 pages
...of preventing its attainment. Says Mr. John Fiske : " I believe in the immortality of the soul ... as a supreme act of faith in the reasonableness of God's work." Thus, while, as Mr. Mill admits, there is no evidence of weight against the immortality of the soul,... | |
 | Sir William Robertson Nicoll - 1900 - 968 pages
...part, I believe in the immortality of the soul, not in the sense in which I accept demonstrable truths of science, but as a supreme act of faith in the reasonableness of God's work." From the same argument Isaiah drew only the former of these two conclusions. To him the certainty that... | |
 | Frank Ballard - 1900 - 396 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. Fiske, J/an'« Desting, p. 109. 27S IX THE SPIRITUAL REALM Two things, Kant avowed, overwhelmed... | |
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