Foretokens of Immortality: Studies "for the Hour When the Immortal Hope ...
Foretokens of Immortality: Studies "for the Hour When the Immortal Hope ...
Hillis Newell Dwight
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Only a seer can imderstand a seer ! Man must go up add* ing sense to sense, and faculty to faculty, in order to attain scientific demonstration of the future life. From these intimations of immortality na- ture asks each to weave in one cumulative ar- gument a chain that may not be broken. Mathe- matical proof may not be possible for every mind. That man should live again is not so strange as that man should live at all. Now that the steam engine has been invented it is easy to foretell its con...tinuance. Newton's mind is more than the clod beneath his feet. But Nep- tune is only many clods brought together. It is inconceivable that the great Qod grants an orbit of millions of years to that wintry clime a^d clod called Neptune, but gives Newton, the philosopher, whose mind squeezes the planet for truth as the hand squeezes an orange, a career of but threescore years and ten. In- credible the thought that God makes the **Principia" to endure, but permits its author to fall into dust. 62 inunortality and Life's Withheld Completions When a benefactor has bestowed a thousand favors upon some youth, and so carries himself ^ to imply another gift, it would be an act of supreme meanness to doubt the continued kind- ness of the benefactor.
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