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Life, death and immortality; with kindred essays
Life death and immortality with kindred essays Author:William M. Bryant I. — LIFE, DEATH AND IMMORTALITY.1 — [FROM THE STANDPOINT OF THE CONSERVATION OF ENERGY.] — 1. The Origin of Life. — When it was suggested a number of years ago in one of the leading scientific assemblies of the world that the origin of life on the earth may have been due to the chance transmission through space of a primordial germ wrapped up in a ... more »meteorite, a discovery of real significance appeared to have been made. All the world was duly notified. And apparently all the world was expected to be duly content thereafter, as if nothing further was to be said concerning the previously much vexed question of the "Beginnings of Life."
The suggestion, as well as its ready acceptance by men of science, was indeed quite in keeping with an opinion more or less prevalent and which came to be formulated by the authors of "The Unseen Universe," to the effect that "it is not so much the right or privilege as the bounden duty of the men of science to put
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Table of Contents
I Life, Dkath and Immortality 1-75; II Oriental Religions 76-85; III Buddhism and Christianity 90-145; IV Christianity and Mohammedanism146-258; V The Natural History of Church Organization 259-296; VI The Heresy of Non-Progressive Orthodoxy297-317; VII Miracles318-368; VIII Christian Ethics as Contrasted With; the Ethics of Other Religions369-405; IX Eternity-A Thread in the Weaving of; a Life406-442
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