 | Herbert Spencer - 1862 - 528 pages
...intelligence. We shall always be under the necessity of contemplating it as some mode of being ; that is — of representing it to ourselves in some form of thought,...utterly without resemblance to that for which it stands. Perhaps the constant formation of such symbols and constant rejection of them as inadequate, may be... | |
 | Edward Royall Tyler, William Lathrop Kingsley, George Park Fisher, Timothy Dwight - 1863 - 878 pages
...which forms the basis of our intelligence. We shall always be under the necessity of representing it in some form of thought, however vague. And we shall...utterly without resemblance to that for which it stands. Perhaps the constant formation of such symbols, and constant rejection of them as inadequate, may be... | |
 | Herbert Spencer - 1864 - 538 pages
..."We shall always be under the necessity of contemplating it as some mode of being ; that is — of representing it to ourselves in some form of thought,...utterly without resemblance to that for which it stands. Perhaps the constant formation of such symbols and constant rejection of them as inadequate, may be... | |
 | Herbert Spencer - 1865 - 528 pages
...intelligence. We shall always be under the necessity of contemplating it as some mode of being ; that is — of representing it to ourselves in some form of thought,...symbol, utterly without resemblance to that for which it stanoir Perhaps the constant formation of such symbols and constant rejection of them as inadequate,... | |
 | Herbert Spencer - 1870 - 600 pages
...which forms the basis of our intelligence. We shall always be under the necessity of contemplating it as some mode of being ; that is—of representing...utterly without resemblance to that for which it stands. Perhaps the constant formation of such symbols and constant rejection of them as inadequate, may be... | |
 | John Batteridge Pearson - 1871 - 112 pages
...the Inscrutable Power. We are bidden to regard every notion we can frame of the ultimate existence as merely a symbol, utterly without resemblance to that for which it stands. A characterless Absolute will be all that this supposed highest development of religious thought will... | |
 | Herbert Spencer - 1872 - 602 pages
...intelligence. We shall always be under the necessity of contemplating it as some mode of being ; that is — of representing it to ourselves in some form of thought, however vague. And we shall not err in doing thifi so long as we treat every notion we thus frame as merely a symbol, utterly without resemblance... | |
 | 1874 - 832 pages
...either suicidal of itself, or absolutely without any meaning at all. " We shall not err," he says, " in doing this, so long as we treat every notion we...without resemblance to that for which it stands." Can there be a symbol utterly without resemblance to that for which it stands ? Could it be framed... | |
 | Arthur Cayley Headlam - 1877 - 572 pages
...intelligence. We shall always be under the necessity of contemplating it as some mode of being ; that is, of representing it to ourselves in some form of thought,...however vague. And we shall not err in doing this, provided we treat every symbol which we thus frame as merely a symbol, utterly without resemblance... | |
 | Herbert Spencer - 1876 - 610 pages
..."VVe shall always be under the necessity of contemplating it as some mode of being ; that is — of representing it to ourselves in some form of thought, however vague. And we shall not err in doingthi/; so long as wo treat every notion we thus frame as merely u symbol, utterly without resemblance... | |
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Very likely there will ever remain a need to give shape to that indefinite sense of an Ultimate Existence, which forms the basis of our intelligence. 
