 Amid the mysteries which become the more mysterious the more they are thought about, there will remain the ONE absolute certainty, that he is ever in the presence of an Infinite and Eternal Energy from which all things proceed.  Unity Pulpit - Page 101886Full view - About this book
 | 1910 - 862 pages
...at last we are led, in the words of Spencer, to recognize the "one absolute certainty that he [man] is ever in the presence of an infinite and eternal energy from which all things proceed." However just this conclusion may be, these facts serve to show that the problem of causation has deeper... | |
 | Josiah Gilbert Holland, Richard Watson Gilder - 1887 - 984 pages
...there will remain the one absolute certainty, that we are ever in • The Nineteenth Century. Vol. XV. presence of an Infinite and Eternal Energy, from which all things proceed." Such leaders of thought as Professors Lotze in Germany and Bowne in this country, and many other metaphysicians... | |
 | 1890 - 980 pages
...no light. So the scientific process makes it as absolutely certain as anything can be that " we are ever in the presence of an Infinite and Eternal Energy from which all things proceed." But it is far from making certain what is the nature of this Energy, which is scientifically as unknowable... | |
 | 1895 - 580 pages
...passes inevitably from the world to God. Thus even the Agnostic is led to maintain that we are " ever in presence of an Infinite and Eternal Energy from which all things proceed." incompatible views of the universe. In modern philosophy when speculation ascends from the world to... | |
 | Herbert Spencer - 1897 - 666 pages
...mysterious the more they are thought about, there will remain the one absolute certainty, that he is ever in presence of an Infinite and Eternal Energy, from which all things proceed. PART VII. PROFESSIONAL INSTITUTIONS. COPYRIGHT, 1896, BY D. APPLETON AND COMPANY. CHAPTER I. PROFESSIONS... | |
 | 1895 - 794 pages
...mild negative of the agnostic, " We do not know, we cannot tell." Even Herbert Spencer says, " We are ever in the presence of an infinite and eternal energy, from which all things proceed." The most thoughtful scientists recognize a power everywhere in creation, causing all the miraculous... | |
 | Benjamin Wills Newton - 1882 - 700 pages
...? C 2 religion, as well as science, is not a little indebted, tells us that " The man of Science is in the presence of an infinite and eternal energy from which all things proceed." " This eternal energy " (I quote the words of a recent critique on his writings) " is Mr. Herbert Spencer's... | |
 | Thomas Walter Barber - 1884 - 210 pages
...more mysterious the more they are thought about, there will remain the one absolute certainty that man is ever in the presence of an infinite and eternal energy from which all things proceed;' which is a practical admission that life and its source are eternal and superior to all created material... | |
 | 1884 - 1108 pages
...positive creed ? It would seem so; for Mr. Spencer brings us at last' to the one absolute certainty, the presence of an Infinite and Eternal Energy, from which all things proceed.' But let no one suppose that this is merely a new name for the Great First Cause of so many theologies... | |
 | 1884 - 954 pages
...positive creed? It would seem so ; for Mr. Spencer brings us at last " to the one absolute certainty, the presence of an Infinite and Eternal Energy, from which all things proceed." But let no one suppose that this is merely a new name for the Great First Cause of so many theologies... | |
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