Biology : with preludes on current events / by Joseph Cook.

  • Josephus Flavius Cook
Date:
1879]
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Credit: Biology : with preludes on current events / by Joseph Cook. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    know it is there, this power behind the bioplasts. When the Bible speaks of a spiritual body, it does not imply that the soul is material; it does not teach materialism at all; it simply implies that the soul has a glorified enswathement, which will accompany it in the next world. I believe that it is a distinct biblical doctrine that there is a spiritual body as there is a natural body, and that the former has extraordinary powers. It is a body which apparently makes nothing of passing through what we call ordinary matter. Our Lord had that body after his resurrection. He appeared suddenly in the midst of his disciples, although the doors were shut. He had on him the scars that were not washed out, and that in heaven had not grown out. I tread here upon the edge of immortal mysteries; but the great proposition I wish to emphasize is, that science, in the name of the microscope and the scalpel, begins to whisper what revelation ages ago uttered in thunders, that there is a spiritual body with glorious capacities. This is a sad world if death is a leap in the dark. But, gentlemen, we are following haughty axiomatic certainty. In clear and cool precision, science comes to the idea of a spiritual body. We must not forget that this conclusion is proclaimed in the name of philosophy of the severest sort. The verdict is scientific: it happens also to be biblical. Is it the worse for that ? It is more and more evident, as the training of the world advances, that everything fundamentally bibli- cal is scientific, and that everything fundamentally scientific is biblical. In every leaf on the summer boughs there is a net- work which may be dissolved out of the verdant portion, and yet retain as a ghost the shape which it gave the leaf from which it came. In every human form growing as a leaf on the tree Igdrasil, we know that network lies within network. Each web of organs, if taken separately, would have a form like that cf man. There might be placed by itself the
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