The Works of Shoshee Chunder Dutt; Half-Hours with Nature Or, Explorations for the Truth. the Ancient World - Softcover

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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1884. Excerpt: ... CHAPTER VIII. FUTURITY, HEAVEN, AND HELL. Or the future we know nothing, nor are we likely to know much for all our scrambles for information about it. The subject is nevertheless as legitimate a study for us as the past, even though it be one of which no personal knowledge can exist. It is often asserted that all the knowledge we have of it consists of what can be gleaned from the declarations of Christ; that it was all guess-work before, ajid would have continued to be guess-work still, but for His revelations. We do not understand this; we do not know what the revelations of Christ have established. If the future was guess-work before, it is guess-work yet for all the explanation He has given us in regard to it. His speaking of the " resurrection of life" and the "resurrection of damnation" has not made either of them intelligible to us. If there be any explanation of the enigma anywhere it is in the pages of Nature, which give us all the light God intended for us on the subject. Living we do not understand what life is: our journey begins without our willing it, and ends without our knowing anything about it. But we see through all Nature that nothing is created in vain; nothing lost: and we reason from that that the life given to us cannot be lost by what we call death. Humanity hopes for futurity, and that hope is a proof of it. The general desire and belief in a future existence which is largely implanted in us has not been called forth by us, and can therefore be accepted as having been given to us for our guidance.-There are hours in life of bitter anguish and utter desolation, when our heart-strings are snapped, and existence loses its value so much that, at the time at least, we really wish to die. But when man thus despairs what does he think ...

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