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  • This makes him the perfect "hero" to fight the Rebirths, but the mindset that is rewarded may be no better for humanity in the long run.

    AUDIO REVIEW: The Year's Top Ten Tales of Science Fiction edited by Allan Kaster 2009

  • They happen to be related, portraying a few decades in the life of Joe Carroway, a merciless (and psychopathic) agent who deals in one way or another with the genetically engineered Rebirths, an oppressed faction of humans who eventually seek freedom by threatening to wipe out the "normal" humans.

    REVIEW: The Year's Best Science Fiction #26 edited by Gardner Dozois 2009

  • They happen to be related, portraying a few decades in the life of Joe Carroway, a merciless (and psychopathic) agent who deals in one way or another with the genetically engineered Rebirths, an oppressed faction of humans who eventually seek freedom by threatening to wipe out the "normal" humans.

    AUDIO REVIEW: The Year's Top Ten Tales of Science Fiction edited by Allan Kaster 2009

  • This makes him the perfect "hero" to fight the Rebirths, but the mindset that is rewarded may be no better for humanity in the long run.

    REVIEW: The Year's Best Science Fiction #26 edited by Gardner Dozois 2009

  • Its origins are lost in antiquity, only a few obscure shreds remaining; Pherecydes, however, [128] when speaking of the immortality of the soul, refers to the doctrine of Rebirths; it is also presented very clearly by both Pythagoras and Plato.

    Reincarnation A Study in Human Evolution Th. Pascal

  • Rebirths are nothing more than the morrows of former lives, and though the merciful waters of Lethe have effaced their memory, the forces stored up in the soul, during the ages, perform their work all the same in the future.

    Reincarnation A Study in Human Evolution Th. Pascal

  • In reality, this is the doctrine of Rebirths, though there is nothing precise about the teaching.

    Reincarnation A Study in Human Evolution Th. Pascal

  • The doctrine of Rebirths called for even stricter secrecy than that of immortality, and this secrecy was accorded it in ancient times; after the coming of the Christ, it grew less rigorous, and the

    Reincarnation A Study in Human Evolution Th. Pascal

  • True, each cycle of incarnation realises only an infinitesimal fraction of the total progress made, each being advances only one step at a time along this interminable series; but then, are not these minor "cycles" in the course of which brings grow and advance towards the final Goal, the visible, material expression, the tangible and indisputable proof of the strict, the inexorable Law of Rebirths?

    Reincarnation A Study in Human Evolution Th. Pascal

  • In Greece, the doctrine of Rebirths is met with in the Orphic tradition, continued by Pythagoras and Plato.

    Reincarnation A Study in Human Evolution Th. Pascal

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