Soul and Body: A Book of Sermons Preached in the Church of the Divine Paternity, New York City (Classic Reprint) - Tapa blanda

Excerpt from Soul and Body: A Book of Sermons Preached in the Church of the Divine Paternity, New York City

One of the most interesting facts of biology, recently discovered, is that the higher forms of animal life pass through all the stages of the lower forms of animal life. That is, the biologist examines under his microscope the contents of the egg of a bird and the contents of the egg of a fish. Up to a certain stage of development there is no perceptible difference. The bird must pass through the fish stage in order to become a bird. In exactly the same way every man passes through all the stages of development from the lowest form of ani mal life and is born into this world an animal - more highly developed than other animals, but nevertheless an animal.

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Excerpt from Soul and Body: A Book of Sermons Preached in the Church of the Divine Paternity, New York City

I have taken for my text the Psalmist's question: "What is man?" Many attempts have been made to answer the question. No answer that has been given is altogether satisfactory. Still we are not ready to give the question up. We too must make our guess at this "riddle of the universe." And upon the guess we make, the answer that we give, very much depends. This is not a mere idle question propounded in curiosity, the answer to which is of no consequence. Right or wrong conduct, a happy or miserable life, peace or despair in the heart, may depend upon the answer to the questions, What is man? - What am I? What is my friend, my wife, my child?

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This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.