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Page 149
... man's inborn tendency to sin by tracing his descent from Adam . The modern biologist regards “ original sin " as man's inheritance from the jungle . It must not be thought that evolution has diminished man's inheritance of animal ...
... man's inborn tendency to sin by tracing his descent from Adam . The modern biologist regards “ original sin " as man's inheritance from the jungle . It must not be thought that evolution has diminished man's inheritance of animal ...
Page 150
... man's mind and how to treat them . Modern medicine thus strikes at the very root of Christian doctrine . For if man is truly mortal , if death ends all , if the human soul is but the manifestation of the living brain , as light and heat ...
... man's mind and how to treat them . Modern medicine thus strikes at the very root of Christian doctrine . For if man is truly mortal , if death ends all , if the human soul is but the manifestation of the living brain , as light and heat ...
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... man swallows it , gives up thinking , and is happy . I believe that a man's tastes , in essence , change but little . His tastes at fifty are at bottom his tastes of twenty filtered through the gauze of wisdom , prudence and ennui . I ...
... man swallows it , gives up thinking , and is happy . I believe that a man's tastes , in essence , change but little . His tastes at fifty are at bottom his tastes of twenty filtered through the gauze of wisdom , prudence and ennui . I ...
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