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Orange Jacobs: “Existing with no evidence of its destruction or of its destructibility, we ought to believe in its immortality; hence, I…”

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Existing with no evidence of its destruction or of its destructibility, we ought to believe in its immortality; hence, I conclude, if a man die, he will live again.
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Orange Jacobs
Republican · Washington

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Jacobs concludes that the evidence suggests belief in the immortality of the soul.

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