...higher mode of being. But this is not a reason for questioning its existence ; it is rather the reverse. Have we not seen how utterly incompetent our minds...phenomena ? Is it not proved that this incompetency is the incompctency of the Conditioned to grasp the Unconditioned ? Does it not follow that the Ultimate Cause...

...higher mode of being. But this is not a reason for questioning its existence, it is rather the reverse. Have we not seen how utterly incompetent our minds are to form even an approach to a conception * To suppose that " the tickings and other movements of a watch fonnlitste i kind of consciousness,"...

...higher mode of being. But this is not a reason for questioning its existence ; it is rather the reverse. Have we not seen how utterly incompetent our minds...phenomena ? Is it not proved that this incompetency is the incompctency of the Conditioned to grasp the Unconditioned ? Does it not follow that the Ultimate Cause...

...— none permitted. It is gravely asserted by Mr. Spencer that " our minds are utterly incompetent to form even an approach to a conception of that which underlies all phenomena," (Spencer's First Principles, p. 108), that is of God, the ultimate cause ; and we are forbidden to...

...higher mode of being. But this is not a reason for questioning its existence ; it is rather the reverse. Have we not seen how utterly incompetent our minds...follow that the Ultimate Cause cannot in any respect bo conceived by us because it is in every respect greater than can he conceived ? And may we not therefore...

...higher mode of being. But this is not a reason for questioning its existence ; it is rather the reverse. Have we not seen how utterly incompetent our minds...grasp the Unconditioned ? Does it not follow that tke Ultimate Cause cannot in any respect be conceived by us because it is in every respect greater...

...questioning its existence ; it is rather the reverse. Have we not seen how incompetent our minds are to form an approach to a conception of that which underlies...incompetency of the conditioned to grasp the unconditioned?" etc. Really, if inconceivability is just as good for an affirmative as for a negative. it is good for...

...degrades Him to an eternal motion, an inscrutable power, neither to be loved nor feared. To say — " The Ultimate Cause cannot in any respect be conceived by us, because He is in every respect greater than can be conceived ;" and then to tell us — " Matter, motion, force,...

...degrades Him to an eternal motion, an inscrutable power, neither to be loved nor feared. To say — " The Ultimate Cause cannot in any respect be conceived by us, because He is in every respect greater than can be conceived ;" and then to tell us — "Matter, motion, force,...

...higher mode of being. But this is not a reason for questioning its existence; it is rather the reverse. Have we not seen how utterly incompetent our minds...phenomena? Is it not proved that this incompetency is the incompctency of the Conditioned to grasp the Unconditioned ? Does it not follow that the Ultimate Cause...