Truth and Immortality

One everywhere finds people who have given up the hope of immortality or else regard it with extreme doubt. Forms of belief with which it has been associated have proved unthinkable to them. Worse yet, to hope for immortality seems not to be loyal to truth. “We want reality,” they say. “We propose t...

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Main Author: Dole, Charles F. (Author)
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Language:English
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Published: Cambridge Univ. Press 1909
In: Harvard theological review
Year: 1909, Volume: 2, Issue: 2, Pages: 202-220
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