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    Life Everlasting
    Life Everlasting
    Life Everlasting
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    Life Everlasting

    By John Fiske

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    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherArchive Classics
    Release dateNov 27, 2013
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      Life Everlasting - John Fiske

      The Project Gutenberg EBook of Life Everlasting, by John Fiske

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      Title: Life Everlasting

      Author: John Fiske

      Release Date: December 5, 2010 [EBook #34569]

      Language: English

      *** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK LIFE EVERLASTING ***

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      By John Fiske

      ESSAYS AND PHILOSOPHY

      A CENTURY OF SCIENCE, and other Essays.

      MYTHS AND MYTH-MAKERS: Old Tales and Superstitions interpreted by Comparative Mythology.

      OUTLINES OF COSMIC PHILOSOPHY. New Edition. With introduction by Josiah Royce, and index. 4 vols.

      THE UNSEEN WORLD, and other Essays.

      EXCURSIONS OF AN EVOLUTIONIST.

      DARWINISM, and other Essays.

      THE DESTINY OF MAN, viewed in the Light of His Origin.

      THE IDEA OF GOD, as affected by Modern Knowledge.

      THROUGH NATURE TO GOD.

      LIFE EVERLASTING.

      For complete list of Mr. Fiske's Historical and Philosophical Works, and Essays, see pages at the back of this work.

      HOUGHTON MIFFLIN COMPANY Boston and New York

      LIFE EVERLASTING

      LIFE EVERLASTING

      BY

      JOHN FISKE

      BOSTON AND NEW YORK

      HOUGHTON MIFFLIN COMPANY

      The Riverside Press Cambridge

      COPYRIGHT, 1901, BY ABBY M. FISKE, EXECUTRIX

      ALL RIGHTS RESERVED

      Published September, 1901

      NOTE

      On the evening of December 19, 1900, Mr. Fiske delivered in Sanders Theatre, Cambridge, the address here printed. It was given at the request of Harvard University, in accordance with the terms of the Ingersoll lectureship, but it stood clearly in Mr. Fiske's mind as a continuation, and in a sense the completion, of that series of philosophic studies successively issued under the titles, The Destiny of Man viewed in the Light of his Origin, The Idea of God as affected by Modern Knowledge, and Through Nature to God. Mr. Fiske delayed the publication of Life Everlasting, and it is possible that he designed amplifying it. Yet, as he stated in his Preface to The Idea of God, that both that book and The Destiny of Man were printed exactly as delivered, without the addition, or subtraction, or alteration of a single word, so he may have intended to print this study in the same way. At any rate it is now printed exactly as it was delivered, his perfectly clear manuscript being carefully followed.

      4 Park Street, Boston

      Autumn, 1901

      THE INGERSOLL LECTURESHIP

      Extract from the will of Miss Caroline

      Haskell Ingersoll, who died in

      Keene, County of Cheshire,

      New Hampshire, Jan.

      26, 1893.

      First. In carrying out the wishes of my late beloved father, George Goldthwait Ingersoll, as declared by him in his last will and testament, I give and bequeath to Harvard University in Cambridge, Mass., where my late father was graduated, and which he always held in love and honor, the sum of Five thousand dollars ($5,000) as a fund for the establishment of a Lectureship on a plan somewhat similar to that of the Dudleian lecture, that is—one lecture to be delivered each year, on any convenient day between the last day of May and the first day of December, on this subject, the Immortality of Man, said lecture not to form a part of the usual college course, nor to be delivered by any Professor or Tutor as part of his usual routine of instruction, though any such Professor or Tutor may be appointed to such service. The choice of said lecturer is not to be limited to any one religious denomination, nor to any one profession, but may be that of either clergyman or layman, the appointment to take place at least six months before the delivery of said lecture. The above sum to be safely invested and three fourths of the annual interest thereof to be paid to the

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