The question of the progress of humanity like that of personal immortality is, as Bury points out, a question of fact.
Belief in personal immortality is still very widely entertained, but may we not fairly say that it has ceased to be a central and guiding idea of collective life, a criterion by which social values are measured?
This is a question of fact, and one which is at present as insoluble as the question of personal immortality.
Enough has been said to show that the Progress of humanity belongs to the same order of ideas as Providence or personal immortality.
So far as God the Invisible King is concerned, Mr. Wells must be taken as ignoring, if not rejecting, the idea of personal immortality.
The interpretation which sees in it a proof of personal immortality may be wrong, but that does not prove that the right interpretation is not worth discovering.
He does not formally commit himself to a denial of personal immortality, but it is a contingency which he declines to take into account.
These gifted men saw no clear indication for the existence of a supreme being; very few of them speak of the deity in the role of Providence and fewer still believed in personal immortality.
George Santayana is a materialist and sceptic who, in his "Reason in Religion," reveals his scepticism and frowns upon personal immortality.
Eucken offers no support to theologians; and Bergson does not seem to express a clear belief in a personal god or personal immortality.
I had not understood that your conception of the Good involved the idea of personal immortality.
To be honest," he replied, "I do not think that the question of personal immortality is one which science ought even to entertain.
The answer to this question seems to depend on whether or not we believe in personal immortality.
But," I said, "do you not think the same about personal immortality?
This is not necessarily inconsistent with a personal immortality.
Furthermore, admitting it to be an open question, neither proved nor disproved, but poised in equal uncertainty, still, it is not immoral nor undevout deeply to desire and fondly to hope a personal immortality.
What a day was that for all humanity forever after, when for the first time, on some climbing brain, dawned from the great Sun of the spirit world the idea of a personal immortality!
Instead of this, we find what is really the sine quâ non of all real religion, a belief in immortality, and in personal immortality.
Without a belief in personal immortality, religion surely is like an arch resting on one pillar, like a bridge ending in an abyss.
However, though not expressly asserted anywhere, a belief in personal immortality is taken for granted in several passages of the Old Testament, and we can hardly think of Abraham or Moses as without a belief in life and immortality.
The philosophy of sensation could give no assurance of personal immortality.
It was fashionable to ridicule the belief in personal immortality, and in enlightened circles to deny the existence of God.
The doctrine of the divine immanence is glorious in his eyes; the faith in personal immortality is taken into the inner citadel of metaphysics, where Parker seldom penetrated.
All we can say is that his doctrine does not provide the material for belief in personal immortality.
But before we hail this as a doctrine of personal immortality, we had best reflect.
Personal immortality is inconsistent with the fundamentals of Aristotle's system.
I am convinced, from numbers of letters I have received and conversation with educated people of all classes, that no other dogma is so firmly established and highly valued as athanatism, or the belief in personal immortality.
There are few other questions (such as the freedom of the will or personal immortality) on which such different and contradictory views have been expressed, and few that remain so far from being closed at the present day.
It has no practical moral value except for those who believe in personal immortality--a scientifically untenable dogma.
Personal immortality may be a thing which the soul, by a concentrated act of creative will, can secure for itself, or can reject for itself.
For the idea of personal immortality, like the idea of an Absolute God, is a projection of the aboriginal "inert" malice.
It may apply, for instance, to the idea of personal immortality.
On the other hand, the conception of a personal immortality cannot be maintained.
The idea that a conviction of personal immortality has a specially ennobling influence on the moral nature of man, is not confirmed by the gruesome history of mediaeval morals, and as little by the psychology of primitive peoples.
It is not the application of the mythological explanation to the Gospel history which irrevocably divides Strauss from the theologians, but the question of personal immortality.
At the end of the second volume, where battle is joined on the issue of personal immortality, all these ideas play their part in the struggle.
Personal immortality is finally rejected in every form, for the critical reasons which Strauss had already set forth in the letters of 1832.
The Christian Heaven, or Personal Immortality 170 Part II.
Faith in Providence is therefore identical with faith in personal immortality; save only, that in the latter the infinite value of existence is expressed in relation to time, as infinite duration.
The immortality of the vital principle by no means involves the idea, not to mention the certainty, of personal immortality.
The resurrection of Christ is therefore the satisfied desire of man for an immediate certainty of his personal existence after death,--personal immortality as a sensible, indubitable fact.
This further illustrates the Celtic theory of non-personal immortality.
Such an eminent psychical researcher as William James recognized this drift of the data of psychics, and when he died he held the conviction that there is no personal immortality (see p.
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "personal immortality" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
