This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1857 Excerpt: ...substance unwrought into personal or individual being. Our theory of the soul's nature will of course affect our view of its origin. Is it given to the body by an immediate creation, or by delegated power? Is the human species reproductive of its kind, no less than the brute? Is not the dignity of man's nature ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1857 Excerpt: ...substance unwrought into personal or individual being. Our theory of the soul's nature will of course affect our view of its origin. Is it given to the body by an immediate creation, or by delegated power? Is the human species reproductive of its kind, no less than the brute? Is not the dignity of man's nature concerned here?3 1 Knnt, Pure Reason, Pref. p. xxxvi. Meiklejohn's trans. a The Trnducian theory of the soul's origin is now respectable. It is eloquently asserted by R. S. Storrs, Constitution of the Soul, pp. 47-56. Compare Prof. Chace, Bib. Sacra, Nov. 1848, pp. 648, 649;--Kevins, Mystical Presence, We have partly Anticipated the argument from the immaterial nature of the soul. The fact we readily admit, but granting even that spiritual substance is uncompounded and cannot be dissolved, it may yet be annihilated by the same power that created it. And we have already seen how the argument proves too much, so that, to save the dishonor of too much company in our immortality, some would have us call the brute soul imperishable but not immortal. Some men of large heart allow the conclusion to which the argument leads, and welcome all living creatures to immortal life.1 Bishop Butler accepts the inference, meeting the prejudice that may threaten our dignity with the remark that "the natural immortality of brutes does not in the least imply that they are endowed with any latent capacities of a rational or moral nature."2 It is better to waive the entire argument, with a careful writer, who says: "As to the pretended demonstration of immortality drawn from the assumed simplicity and indestructibility of the soul as an immaterial substance, they appear altogether unconclusive; or if conclusive, then such as must be admitted to apply, with sc...
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