Origin, purpose, and destiny of man, or, Philosophy of the three ethers / by William Thornton.

  • Thornton, William, 1846-
Date:
1891
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Credit: Origin, purpose, and destiny of man, or, Philosophy of the three ethers / by William Thornton. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine, through the Medical Heritage Library. The original may be consulted at the Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine, Harvard Medical School.

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    those which never change, but preserve their identity eternally as the Angels, and the Immortal Spirit of Man, which are the only realities and continuities in the universe, God being Supreme Ruler of all. Nature's process of evolution was culmi- nated in man. Is she to stop here, or is she by the same rate and manner going to produce a being still higher ? I think, now that man's state has been reached, that a psychological differentiation may commence in continuation of the Darwinian morphological differentia- tion. Is there any evidence existing to-day which indicates anything like such an assertion of the spirit here in this world? This would require the gradational throw- ing off of this material concrete which we call man's body, until an ultimately devel- oped spiritual state shall become the order of things. If the soul does not require feeding, such a state is possible. There are human beings who are so sensitively organ- ized that they are impressionable to sur-