Word: offing
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Dates: during 1900-1900
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The attention of students is called to the following regulation. "Continuous residence at the University is required during termtime. No interruption of residence is permissible, except for satisfactory reasons stated to the Recorder orally, if possible before the student leaves Cambridge. The student who has been absent must also report...
Dr. Fiske took up the scientific arguments for and against the theory of immortal life and from these arguments sought to deduce and prove the reasonableness of man's faith in the future existence.
The historical beginnings of the theory of immortality were crude. In the primeval savage tribes, it existed in the belief in ghosts who more or less directly influenced the lives of mortal men. As the intellect of mankind developed through the ages, so this theory of immortality grew and became...
It is at least a strong tribute to the theory of immortality that it developed as primeval mankind developed into higher types, it is a still stronger tribute to its reasonableness that in the evolution of species it is first found in the highest types. The lower animals have no...
In the thirteenth century the belief in immortality had reached pre-eminence, but there followed a reaction to scepticism that was almost complete. Men fell back on materialism and natural science and the theory of immortality to be established today must answer the questioning doubts of both of these.