Future Punishment, or, Does Death End Probation?
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ISBN13: 9780217719674
Paperback|9780217719674
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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: If this is the position of man in the scale of creation, it makes him the legitimate offspring of the bestial race, by a line of ascending gradation, but at the same time of unbroken succession: a line which leads him down through the beast, the bird, the reptile, the fish, the mollusc and the worm, until he finds his origin in a chemical lump of matter. As a materialist expresses it, the chemic lump arrives at the plant, and grows: arrives at the quadruped, and walks: arrives at man, and thinks. That is, the chemic lump, by its own inherent energies, moves on towards those different steps of promotion. It is the same lump that shapes itself into the goodly proportions of the human form, and there seated as on a throne within the recesses of the human brain, assumes a spiritual character and thinks. Such a theory, 1t would seem, needs only to be stated to carry with it its own refutation. Its baselessness on scientific grounds, and its unreasonableness or absurdity on moral grounds, have repeatedly been shown. To expose all the fallacies and assumptions that underlie it, is beyond the immediate purpose of this volume, and would tax unduly the patience of the general reader. Suffice it, that we present the following condensed summary of one of the earliest replies made to the theory, as indicating how vulnerable it is, when critically examined. The late Rev. Walter McGilvray, D.D., in his treatise entitled The Sadducees of Science, thus writes: To make such a theory credible, there are many assertions and assumptions that have yet to be proved. Among these may be mentioned the statement, regarding the gradual procession of the different races of creatures, from each other. ' Like produces like, ' has hitherto been regarded as the established law of nature, nor has a...
| ISBN-13 | 9780217719674 |
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| ISBN-10 | 0217719678 |
| Weight | 0.78 Pounds |
| Dimensions | 9.00 x 6.00 x 0.54 In |
| List Price | $24.02 |
| Format | Paperback |
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| Pages | 238 pages |
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| Published On | 2009-08-01 |
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