Man All Immortal Author:Davis Wasgatt Clark Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: MAN ALL IMMORTAL. THE DOUBLE NATURE OF MAN; OR, SOUL AND BODY. "And the Lord God formed man of the dust of the ground and breathed into his nostrils the br... more »eath of life, and man became a living soul." Genesis ii, 7. " There is a spirit in man; and the inspiration of the Almighty giveth them understanding." Job xxxii, 8. Whence came I? what am I? and whither am I bound? are questions which have ever excited in the human mind an intensity of thought and feeling awakened by no other subject. They are questions of transcendent importance. For all that can elevate us in the scale of being; all that can direct to noble and virtuous purpose the energies of our nature; in fine, all that can give permanency to our hopes of an eternal being, or satisfy our longings after immortality, are centered in the solution which reason and religion give of them. The very rules of life, the maxims of society, the ultimate purposes and aims of a social and immortal being, are dependent upon them. For, unless we know what man is, unless we know what are the present objects of his being, and what is to be his final destiny, how can we prescribe rules for his conduct or lay before him proper motives of action? how can we still the disquietude of his heart or prevent the soul from falling back, discomfited and distressed, in its unsatisfied longings to solve the mysterious problem of its own being? Any effort,then, however feeble and unsatisfactory it may be, looking toward the solution of this problem of humanity is not unworthy of considerate attention and thought. But how little does man know of himself ! After all the researches of science, from the time that "know thyself" was first inscribed upon the temple of reason till the present hour, what has been the result? How little do we kn...« less