The Insuppressible Book: A Controversy Between Herbert Spencer and Frederic HarrisonS.E. Cassino, 1885 - 278 pages |
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Absolute adoration Agnostic Agnosticism All-Being anthropomorphic argument ascribed assert Athanasian Creed attributes Auguste Comte belief called centuries Christ Christian Comte Comte's conceived conception consciousness created Creative Power Creator creed dead Dean Mansel deity divine doctrine earth effect Eternal Energy evolution evolution philosophy existence fact feeling Fetichism Frederic Harrison ghost-theory ghosts heaven Herbert Spencer human race idea implied Infinite and Eternal Infinite Energy intelligence knowable ligion living logical manifested mankind Mansel ment mind moral mystery nature ness never Newton Hall noumenon objects ontology personality phenomena philosopher Positive Positivism Positivist present primitive Principles reason regard religion of Humanity Revelation reverence sciousness seems sense Sir James Stephen social soul speak Spen Spencer says spirits statement supernatural suppose theology theory things proceed thought tion transcends truth Ultimate Cause Ultimate Reality Universe Unknowable unthinkable vast veneration and gratitude whole words worship
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Page 22 - 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.
Page 185 - God that made the world and all things therein, seeing that he is Lord of heaven and earth, dwelleth not in temples made with hands; neither is worshipped with men's hands, as though he needed anything, seeing he giveth to all life and breath and all things...
Page 183 - Canst thou bind the sweet influences of Pleiades, or loose the bands of Orion? Canst thou bring forth Mazzaroth in his season? or canst thou guide Arcturus with his sons?
Page 189 - Are God and Nature then at strife, That Nature lends such evil dreams? So careful of the type she seems, So careless of the single life, That I, considering everywhere Her secret meaning in her deeds...
Page 50 - Consequently, the final outcome of that speculation commenced by the primitive man, is that the Power manifested throughout the Universe distinguished as material, is the same Power which in ourselves wells up under the form of consciousness.
Page 177 - Forasmuch then as we are the offspring of God, we ought not to think that the Godhead is like unto gold, or silver, or stone, graven by art and man's device.
Page 182 - Have we not seen how utterly incompetent our minds are to form even an approach to a conception of that which underlies all phenomena...
Page 50 - ... this necessity we are under to think of the external energy in terms of the internal energy, gives rather a spiritualistic than a materialistic aspect to the Universe...
Page 38 - Bampton Lectures touched the low-water mark of vitality as predicated of the Divine Being. Of all modern theologians, the Dean came the nearest to the Evolution negation. But there is a gulf which separates even his all-negative deity from Mr. Spencer's impersonal, unconscious, unthinking, and unthinkable Energy.
Page 11 - ... ascription of them to the Ultimate Cause of things, even now felt to be full of difficulties, must become impossible. So, too, must die out the belief that a Power present in innumerable worlds throughout infinite space, and who during millions of years of the Earth's earlier existence needed no honoring by its inhabitants, should be seized with a craving for praise ; and having created mankind, should be angry with them if they do not perpetually tell him how great he is.