The Proofs of Life After Death: A Collation of Opinions as to Future LifeRobert John Thompson Small, Maynard, 1906 - 365 Seiten |
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... Nature provides for the fulfill- ment , the complete fulfillment at some time or place of all the appetites of man . What then of this , the supreme , the eternal , the everlasting appetite - the desire for immortality ? Who shall place ...
... Nature provides for the fulfill- ment , the complete fulfillment at some time or place of all the appetites of man . What then of this , the supreme , the eternal , the everlasting appetite - the desire for immortality ? Who shall place ...
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... nature turn back upon itself in throes of revolt ; evolution would cease , and the human race , after a few reac- tionary generations , obliterate itself completely from the face of the Earth . Such a conception of the finality of man's ...
... nature turn back upon itself in throes of revolt ; evolution would cease , and the human race , after a few reac- tionary generations , obliterate itself completely from the face of the Earth . Such a conception of the finality of man's ...
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... nature as you please , reaching the cel- lula or the single vibration , and you find that this original entity has had a cause , which is the first cause . This first cause is a force ; it cannot even be called a vibration , as a ...
... nature as you please , reaching the cel- lula or the single vibration , and you find that this original entity has had a cause , which is the first cause . This first cause is a force ; it cannot even be called a vibration , as a ...
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... nature by intelligence . The force which has created man , being intelli- gent , must follow its work of order and organization beyond the narrow limits of nature which are known to us by means of the senses we now possess , viz ...
... nature by intelligence . The force which has created man , being intelli- gent , must follow its work of order and organization beyond the narrow limits of nature which are known to us by means of the senses we now possess , viz ...
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... nature exists in man . Second . That in his future life the principle commonly called the soul preserves to a great meas- ure the qualities and dispositions which dominated it in its terrestrial life . Third . That this supra ...
... nature exists in man . Second . That in his future life the principle commonly called the soul preserves to a great meas- ure the qualities and dispositions which dominated it in its terrestrial life . Third . That this supra ...
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Seite 200 - Sunset and evening star, And one clear call for me! And may there be no moaning of the bar, When I put out to sea, But such a tide as moving seems asleep, Too full for sound and foam, When that which drew from out the boundless deep Turns again home. Twilight and evening bell, And after that the dark! And may there be no sadness of farewell, When I embark; For tho...
Seite 199 - And so beside the Silent Sea I wait the muffled oar ; No harm from Him can come to me On ocean or on shore. I know not where His islands lift Their fronded palms in air ; I only know I cannot drift Beyond His love and care.
Seite 206 - Here will I hold. If there's a power above us (And that there is, all Nature cries aloud Through all her works), he must delight in virtue ; And that which he delights in must be happy.
Seite 30 - What do you think has become of the young and old men? And what do you think has become of the women and children? They are alive and well somewhere, The smallest sprout shows there is really no death...
Seite 206 - Why shrinks the soul Back on herself, and startles at destruction ? 'Tis the divinity that stirs within us; 'Tis Heaven itself that points out an hereafter, And intimates eternity to man.
Seite 320 - And the will therein lieth, which dieth not. Who knoweth the mysteries of the will, with its vigor? For God is but a great will pervading all things by nature of its intentness. Man doth not yield himself to the angels, nor unto death utterly, save only through the weakness of his feeble will.
Seite 206 - If there's a power above us (And that there is, all Nature cries aloud Through all her works), he must delight in virtue ; And that which he delights in must be happy. But when, or where ? — This world was made for Caesar.
Seite 269 - For tho from out our bourne of Time and Place The flood may bear me far, I hope to see my Pilot face to face When I have crossed the bar.
Seite 274 - Oft may the spirits of the dead descend To watch the silent slumbers of a friend ; To hover round his evening walk unseen, And hold sweet converse on the dusky green ; To hail the spot where first their friendship grew, And heaven and nature opened to their view...
Seite 206 - The stars shall fade away, the sun himself Grow dim with age, and Nature sink in years, But thou shalt flourish in immortal youth, Unhurt amidst the war of elements, The wreck of matter, and the crush of worlds.