The Proofs of Life After Death: A Collation of Opinions as to Future LifeRobert John Thompson Small, Maynard, 1906 - 365 pages |
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... hope to infidel , agnostic or Christian . He advanced , in his simple way , from scientific analogy and phil- osophy , such reasons for a belief in life after death as he thought might appeal to those who could not accept , nor even ...
... hope to infidel , agnostic or Christian . He advanced , in his simple way , from scientific analogy and phil- osophy , such reasons for a belief in life after death as he thought might appeal to those who could not accept , nor even ...
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... Hope in my eyes and comfort in my breath , And strong conviction in my radiant mien , The while I whispered of that beauteous goal . This would I do if I were you , O Death ! " II . Said Death to Life , " If I were you , my friend , I ...
... Hope in my eyes and comfort in my breath , And strong conviction in my radiant mien , The while I whispered of that beauteous goal . This would I do if I were you , O Death ! " II . Said Death to Life , " If I were you , my friend , I ...
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... hope of gaining eternal blessings or not , that it is impossible to take any sensible or judicious step without regulat- ing it from this standpoint , which must be our final object . " -Pascal . INTRODUCTION The Idea of the Book . The ...
... hope of gaining eternal blessings or not , that it is impossible to take any sensible or judicious step without regulat- ing it from this standpoint , which must be our final object . " -Pascal . INTRODUCTION The Idea of the Book . The ...
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... hope , if not the conviction , that this profound problem is not unanswerable ; that it is a practical question , open and demanding investiga- tion and solution ; that upon its issue rests the most stupendous results in civilization ...
... hope , if not the conviction , that this profound problem is not unanswerable ; that it is a practical question , open and demanding investiga- tion and solution ; that upon its issue rests the most stupendous results in civilization ...
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... hope , no future the traveler , whether on life's journey or the Twentieth Century Express , would , with all his companions , leap , not for life , but for death , and dying would leave no progeny to face the hideous mockery Introduction ...
... hope , no future the traveler , whether on life's journey or the Twentieth Century Express , would , with all his companions , leap , not for life , but for death , and dying would leave no progeny to face the hideous mockery Introduction ...
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Page 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...
Page 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.
Page 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.
Page 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...
Page 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.
Page 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.
Page 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.
Page 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.
Page 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...
Page 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.