| Pennsylvania Yearly Meeting of Progressive Friends (1853-1940) - 1891 - 900 pages
...cherished but suppressed." An evolutionary process is here discovered : the moral evil being shown as the lower state of living as looked at from the higher State, and as man cornes nearer God. Mr. Fiske concludes that evil will lapse into a mere memory. Against... | |
| 1899 - 828 pages
...this wonderful evolution, it begins to become manifest that moral evil is simply the characteristic of the lower state of living as looked at from the higher state. Its existence is purely relative, yet it is profoundly real, and in a process of perpetual spiritual... | |
| John Fiske - 1899 - 222 pages
...this wonderful evolution, it begins to become manifest that moral evil is simply the characteristic of the lower state of living as looked at from the higher state. Its existence is purely relative, yet it is profoundly real, and in a process of perpetual spiritual... | |
| Henry Dodge Estabrook - 1914 - 380 pages
...to happiness itself. For what is evil? Someone has said — perhaps it was Horatio Dresser — that evil is simply the lower state of living as looked at from the higher state. That is really a great definition. It holds in solution the riddle of the ages. It strikes, like a... | |
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