 Thou canst not prove thou art immortal, no Nor yet that thou art mortal — nay my son, Thou canst not prove that I, who speak with thee, Am not thyself in converse with thyself, For nothing worthy proving can be proven, Nor yet disproven...  The Living Age - Page 5281909Full view - About this book
 | 1909 - 858 pages
...prove thou art immortal, no Nor yet that thou art mortal — nay. my son, Thou canst not prove that i, who speak with thee, Am not thyself in converse with...on the exercises of the speculative intellect, we nre to "cling to faith ": She reels not in the storm of warring words, She brightens at the clash of... | |
 | Theology - 1910 - 694 pages
...prove thou art immortal, no Nor yet that thou art mortal — nay, my son, Thou canst not- prove that I, who speak with thee, Am not thyself in converse with...For nothing worthy proving can be proven, Nor yet disproven: wherefore thou be wise, Cleave ever to the sunnier side of doubt, And cling to Faith, beyond... | |
 | Methodist Church - 1900 - 1034 pages
...regarded as certainly real and true admit not of absolute proof: My son, Thou canst not prove that I who speak with thee, Am not thyself in converse with...For nothing worthy proving can be proven, Nor yet disproven. "Therefore," says the sage, "be thou wise." Cleave ever to the sunnier side of doubt, And... | |
 | Charles Alphonso Smith - American literature - 1912 - 404 pages
...that thou art immortal, no Nor net that thou art mortui - nay mn son, Thou canst not prove that I, who speak with thee, Am not thyself in converse with...thyself, For nothing worthy proving can be proven Nor vet disproven. 1841 veröffentlichte Emerson den ersten Vand der Essaus, 1842 den zweiten. 1847 erschienen... | |
 | James Wideman Lee - Religion and science - 1912 - 316 pages
...that thou art immortal, no, Nor yet that thou art mortal — nay, my son, Thou canst not prove that I, who speak with thee, Am not thyself in converse with thyself, — For nothing worth proving can be proven, Nor yet disproven." 15. It is as evident that God exists as it is that... | |
 | Harry Emerson Fosdick - 1913 - 170 pages
...that thou art immortal, no, Nor yet that thou art mortal — nay, my son, Thou canst not prove that I, who speak with thee, Am not thyself in converse with...For nothing worthy proving can be proven, Nor yet disproven." Indeed, such unmitigated scepticism, not to be evaded except by faith in those perceptions... | |
 | Harry Emerson Fosdick - Immortality - 1913 - 168 pages
...that thou art immortal, no, Nor yet that thou art mortal — nay, my son, Thou canst not prove that I, who speak with thee, Am not thyself in converse with...For nothing worthy proving can be proven, Nor 'yet disproven." Indeed, such unmitigated scepticism, not to be evaded except by faith in those perceptions... | |
 | Caroline Frances Eleanor Spurgeon - Literary Criticism - 1913 - 188 pages
...prove thou art immortal, no, Nor yet that thou art mortal — nay, my son, Thou canst not prove that I who speak with thee Am not thyself in converse with...For nothing worthy proving can be proven, Nor yet disproven. Symbolism is of immense importance in mysticism ; indeed, symbolism and mythology are, as... | |
 | Caroline Frances Eleanor Spurgeon - Literary Criticism - 1913 - 192 pages
...prove thou art immortal, no, Nor yet that thou art mortal — nay, my son, Thou canst not prove that I who speak with thee Am not thyself in converse with thyself, For nothing worthy proving can he proven, Nor yet disproven. Symbolism is of immense importance in mysticism ; indeed, symbolism and... | |
 | Raymond Macdonald Alden - English poetry - 1917 - 406 pages
...prove thou art immortal, no Nor yet that thou art mortal—nay, my son, Thou canst not prove that I, who speak with thee, Am not thyself in converse with...For nothing worthy proving can be proven, Nor yet disproven: wherefore thou be wise, Cleave ever to the sunnier side of doubt, And cling to Faith beyond... | |
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