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No man with his breadth of knowledge, with his complete mastery of the processes of induction and analysis, and with his metephysical character of mind, could ever be a disbeliever in the existence of God and the immortality of man.
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Orange Jacobs
Republican · Washington

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Jacobs expresses the idea that a knowledgeable person cannot deny the existence of God and the immortality of the soul.

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