 | New Church gen. confer - 1868 - 602 pages
...grounds of their reconcilement, he has nothing better to offer than the saying of Herbert Spencer — " If religion and science are to be reconciled, the...facts, that the power which the universe manifests to ui is utterly inscrutable." On this ground reconciliation is impossible. The human soul created for... | |
 | New Church gen. confer - 1869 - 636 pages
...Science are to be reconciled, the basis of reconciliation must be the deepest and most certain of all facts — that the Power which the universe manifests to us is utterly inscrutable." This is at least a plain, definite, and honest way of stating the case. It is moreover a pretentious... | |
 | Edward Royall Tyler, William Lathrop Kingsley, George Park Fisher, Timothy Dwight - 1863 - 878 pages
...Religious Idea — the vital element of all religions — is a truth of the highest certainty, viz., that " the Power which the universe manifests to us is utterly inscrutable." Does Science agree with lieligion, in the acceptance of this truth? Here follows an examination of... | |
 | Herbert Spencer - 1864 - 650 pages
...to be reconciled, the basis of reconciliation must be this deepest, widest, and most certain of all facts — that the Power which the Universe manifests to us is utterly inscrutable. CHAPTER HI. ULTIMATE SCIENTIFIC IDEAS. §15. WHAT are Space and Time? Two hypotheses are current respecting... | |
 | Herbert Spencer - 1864 - 538 pages
...to be reconciled, the basis of reconciliation must be this deepest, widest, and most certain of all facts — that the Power which the Universe manifests to us is utterly inscrutable. CHAPTER in. ULTIMATE SCIENTIFIC IDEAS. § 15. WHAT are Space and Time ? Two hypotheses are current... | |
 | 1874 - 824 pages
...unknowable as source of all that is. "The ultimate religious truth of the highest possible certainty " is " that the power which the universe manifests to us is utterly inscrutable." 1 And again : " Appearance [manifestation] without reality is unthinkable." 2 Therefore " the inscrutable... | |
 | James McCosh - 1865 - 472 pages
...verity," "common to all religions,'' '' the ultimate religious truth of the highest possible certainty" that " the Power ', • which the universe manifests to us is utterly inscrutable." He quotes with approbation the language of Hamilton about its being the highest effort of thought to... | |
 | 1866 - 992 pages
...forty-six pages with elaborate proofs that " the deepest, widest, and most certain of all facts is, that the Power which the universe manifests to us, is utterly inscrutable."* But this truth, which Mr. Spencer takes so much trouble to demonstrate, was enunciated in the book... | |
 | 1868 - 676 pages
...finite, and shifts its ground to meet the requirements of every new fact that science establishes, and every old error that science exposes. Thus pursued,...and spiritual history of man, and the forces which manifest themselves in the alternate victories of mind and of matter over the actions of the individual,... | |
 | James Samuelson, William Crookes - 1868 - 664 pages
...finite, and shifts its ground to meet the requirements of every new fact that science establishes, and every old error that science exposes. Thus pursued,...and spiritual history of man, and the forces which manifest themselves in the alternate victories of mind and of matter over the actions of the individual,... | |
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If religion and science are to be reconciled, the basis of the reconciliation must be this deepest, widest, and most certain of facts, that the power which the universe manifests to us, is utterly inscrutable. 
