 | 1871 - 808 pages
...face to face with a deep mystery. "The consciousness of an Inscrutable Power," says Mr. H. Spencer, "manifested to us through all phenomena, has been...the one hand such a power exists, while on the other its nature transcends intuition and is beyond imagination, is the certainty towards which intelligence... | |
 | Herbert Spencer - 1862 - 528 pages
...of which neither can gain in intensity without increasing the. intensity of the other. § 31. Thus the consciousness of an Inscrutable Power manifested...intelligence has from the first been progressing. To this conclusion Science inevitably arrives as it reaches ite confines ; while to . this conclusion... | |
 | Herbert Spencer - 1864 - 538 pages
...; of which neither can gain in intensity without increasing the intensity of the other. § 31. Thus the consciousness of an Inscrutable Power manifested...intelligence has from the first been progressing. To this conclusion Science inevitably arrives as it reaches its confines ; while to this conclusion... | |
 | Charles Beard - 1873 - 478 pages
...manifested as feeling and thought." And elsewhere this same powerful thinker impressively remarks : " The consciousness of an Inscrutable Power manifested...the one hand such a Power exists, while on the other its nature transcends intuition and is beyond imagination, is the certainty towards which intelligence... | |
 | Jared Sparks, Edward Everett, James Russell Lowell, Henry Cabot Lodge - 1865 - 666 pages
...becomes more and more distinct as the knowable becomes more distinct in its conditions and limits. "Thus the consciousness of an Inscrutable Power manifested...imagination, is the certainty towards which intelligence lias from the first been progressing. To this conclusion science inevi(ably arrives as it reaches its... | |
 | Herbert Spencer - 1865 - 528 pages
...without increasing the intensity of the other. § 31. Thus the consciousness of an InscrutablaEower manifested to us through all phenomena, has been growing...intelligence has from the first been progressing. To this conclusion Science inevitably arrives as it reaches its confines ; while to this conclusion... | |
 | Herbert Spencer - 1870 - 600 pages
...thought; of which neither can gain in intensity without increasing the intensity of the other. § 31. Thus the consciousness of an Inscrutable Power manifested...intelligence has from the first been progressing. To this conclusion Science inevitably arrives as it reaches its confines; while to this conclusion... | |
 | Herbert Spencer - 1870 - 588 pages
...; of which neither can gain in intensity without increasing the intensity of the other. § 31. Thus the consciousness of an Inscrutable Power manifested...certainty that on the one hand such a Power exists, whilel on the other hand its nature transcends intuition and is be- \ yond imagination, is the certainty... | |
 | 1870 - 958 pages
...power, we «T» just the consciousness on which reliqion dwells. . . . The certainty that on ti* cnehand such a power exists, while on the other hand its nature...intelligence has from the first been progressing. . . . Some — as Mr. Mansel — do indeed allege, that, though the Ultimate Cause of things cannot... | |
 | St. George Jackson Mivart - 1871 - 372 pages
...incognoscibility of it, is even an actual knowledge of the mode of its existence. Mr. Herbert Spencer says : * " The consciousness of an Inscrutable Power manifested...intelligence has from the first been progressing." One would think that the familiar and accepted word " the Inscrutable " (which is in this passage actually... | |
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Thus the consciousness of an Inscrutable Power manifested to us through all phenomena, has been growing ever clearer ; and must eventually be freed from its imperfections. The certainty that on the one hand such a Power exists, while on the other hand... 
