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The Open Court (Volume 28)

The Open Court (Volume 28)

Carus, Paul

Paperback

General World History

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ISBN10: 1154189155
ISBN13: 9781154189155
Publisher: General Books
Pages: 272
Weight: 1.08
Height: 0.57 Width: 7.44 Depth: 9.69
Language: English
This historic book may have numerous typos, missing text, images, or index. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. 1914. Not illustrated. Excerpt: ... NON OMNIS MORIAR. PROBABILITIES OF AN AFTER LIFE. BY F. W. ORDE WARD. WE see a vision of personal immortality objectified in the continuation of the human race; we know there was a paleolithic man ages ago, and perhaps before him the eolithic man ages and ages ago. Nor indeed does any assignable limit, within millions of years, seem possible. There appears to be no reason why there should be a final end now or in the ages to come. We existed almost from the beginning of time in the ancestral germ-plasm of infinitely remote but related predecessors, and we perpetuate ourselves, so to speak, in our children and in their descendants as well as in the race. We belong indissolubly to each other by right of succession. The individual cannot help identifying himself with the race. This seem practically immortal and therefore why are not we ourselves? We admit a subjective futurity for all, in memory, in love, in honor, and in the minds of others. The best part of us, our spiritual life, sows itself, takes root, flowers, and bears fruit in endless following generations. Our work endures, builded into the work of others and confederate with theirs and our successors. It carries on the personal note into the impersonal inheritance. We, who perish in our mortal part, transmit nevertheless out of the time process our distinctive features into the life process, the cosmic process, the eternal process. We belong ethically, through the passing on of undying truths and virtues, our moral and religious excellences, our spiritual expansion and experience, to another world or over-world which recognizes no death. We feel it impossible to believe that the indomitable soul with its appetite for infinity, its craving for the universal, its heavenly hunger, its divine discont...

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