Excerpt from Anastasis: Or the Doctrine of the Resurrection of the Body, Rationally and Scripturally Considered The proposition which is virtually embodied in the head ing of the present section, flows by natural sequence from the general and universally admitted truth, that the human race itselfis progressive, not merely in physical continuity, but in mental development. That our collective humanity, like each individual that composes it, passes through a child hood, a youth, and a meridian manhood, can scarcely be a question with any one who casts his eye at the page of his tory or the universal analogies of nature. We should be far from doing violence to truth, should we slightly alter the poetic aphorism, and read Progress is heaven's first law. If so, the thesis may stand unassailable, that the knowledge of Revelation, like that of Nature, is destined to be continually on the advance. So far as the latter is con cerned it will not be denied by the reflecting mind, that even at this period of the world man has arrived but at the threshold of that august temple of Truth into which he is called to enter, and to become a worshipper at its inmost shrines; He is now in the scene of his pupilage - in the lowest forms of that school in which he has been set to learn the lessons of the universe. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.