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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... result , has been to bring together into a combined form and in accordance , I may add , with the modern commer ... results in civilization and the relations of man to man in all their varied aspects . Full knowledge of the value of ...
... result , has been to bring together into a combined form and in accordance , I may add , with the modern commer ... results in civilization and the relations of man to man in all their varied aspects . Full knowledge of the value of ...
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... result from such reasoning : -first , that the force which created man is an intelligent force ; second , that man is distinguished from all other beings in nature by intelligence . The force which has created man , being intelli- gent ...
... result from such reasoning : -first , that the force which created man is an intelligent force ; second , that man is distinguished from all other beings in nature by intelligence . The force which has created man , being intelli- gent ...
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... results of the last hundred years of active inquiry have been again and again to double the mass of information which ... result of natural inquiry has been the conception that all the occurrences of the visible universe are related in ...
... results of the last hundred years of active inquiry have been again and again to double the mass of information which ... result of natural inquiry has been the conception that all the occurrences of the visible universe are related in ...
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... result is merely fortuitous ( chance ) ; but , if so , it must have been almost as one to infinity against the chance that the summit should have been attained in man . * * * If we fancy a being of an appropriate intelligence beholding ...
... result is merely fortuitous ( chance ) ; but , if so , it must have been almost as one to infinity against the chance that the summit should have been attained in man . * * * If we fancy a being of an appropriate intelligence beholding ...
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... result invariably appeared , he would have the most absolute proof that can possibly be had to show that chance did not determine the occurrences , or , in other words , he would be compelled to support the existence of some kind of ...
... result invariably appeared , he would have the most absolute proof that can possibly be had to show that chance did not determine the occurrences , or , in other words , he would be compelled to support the existence of some kind of ...
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absolute Alfred Russel Wallace animals appear argument atoms become believe body brain called cause cerned clairvoyance cognition communication conception conclusion consciousness continued existence conviction Crookes death demonstration doubt earth ence energy eternal ether evidence evolution excarnate experience F. W. H. Myers fact faculties feel force function future higher human soul hypothesis Hyslop immanent immortality individual inductive infinite inquiry intel intelligence investigation Katie Katie King knowledge known living manifestations material matter means medium mediumship ment mental mentators mind Miss Cook motion nature never objective observation organism perfect personal identity phenom phenomena philosophical physical Piper planet Plato possible Prof proof Psychical Research psychological question race reality reason result scientific sciousness seance seems senses Sir William Crookes Society for Psychical soul spiritual spiritualistic substance taxonomic telepathy theory things thought tion to-day trance true truth universe
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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.