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... body and the functions or activity of a creature that it must appear doubtful whether a body fit for a human soul to inhabit and use could be evolved in a non - human strain . One asks doubtfully whether a body of human form could have ...
... body and the functions or activity of a creature that it must appear doubtful whether a body fit for a human soul to inhabit and use could be evolved in a non - human strain . One asks doubtfully whether a body of human form could have ...
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... body . Yet some Christian sects reject this dogma as merely antiquated and degrading . Even while relaxing moral sanctions against misuse of the body , they maintain that all use of the body necessarily diminishes our spiritual ...
... body . Yet some Christian sects reject this dogma as merely antiquated and degrading . Even while relaxing moral sanctions against misuse of the body , they maintain that all use of the body necessarily diminishes our spiritual ...
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... bodies , far from rendering belief in the resurrection impossible , actu- ally helps to show its reasonableness . It may well be that my body at death contains some of the very substance which once mouldered in an ancient and forgotten ...
... bodies , far from rendering belief in the resurrection impossible , actu- ally helps to show its reasonableness . It may well be that my body at death contains some of the very substance which once mouldered in an ancient and forgotten ...
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THE STATURE OF MAN page | 1 |
SOLIDITY | 18 |
THE VALIDITY OF SENSORY EXPERIENCE | 25 |
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