 Is it not just possible that there is a mode of being as much transcending Intelligence and Will, as these transcend mechanical motion ? It is true that we are totally unable to conceive any such higher mode of being.  The Popular Science Monthly - Page 7831885Full view - About this book
 | 1862 - 490 pages
...whereas- the choice is rather between personality and something higher. Is it not just possible that there is a mode of being as much transcending intelligence and will as these transcend mechanical motion ? " If we compare the "Is it not possible " of Spencer with the " must be " of Parker, we shall see... | |
 | Edward Royall Tyler, William Lathrop Kingsley, George Park Fisher, Timothy Dwight - 1863 - 878 pages
...than personality, but rather between personality and something higher. "Is it not just possible that there is a mode of .being as much transcending Intelligence and Will, as these transcend mechanical motion 1 It is true that »e are totally unable to conceive any such higher mode of being. But this is not... | |
 | 1865 - 912 pages
...personality, whereas the choice is between personality and something higher. Is it not just possible that there is a mode of being as much transcending intelligence...as these transcend mechanical motion ? It is true we are utterly unable to conceive any such higher mode of being. . . . And may we not, therefore, rightly... | |
 | Herbert Spencer - 1867 - 608 pages
...whereas the choice is rather between personality and something higher. Is it not just possible that there is a mode of being as much transcending Intelligence and Will, as these transcend mechanical motion P It is true that we are totally unable to conceive any such higher mode of being. But this is not... | |
 | 1872 - 648 pages
...n f- r*i im TV^"»* Wr\on ,',... <* <-V» ^ ^T-\/-\io£» IO lir\1" r\#*_ it not just possible that there is a mode of being as much transcending intelligence and will as these transcend mechanical motion ?" Frankly, we do not know. Intelligence and will are the highest forms of power we know, and, if we... | |
 | St. George Jackson Mivart - 1871 - 412 pages
...whereas the choice is rather between personality and something higher. Is it not just possible that there is a mode of being as much transcending intelligence...these transcend mechanical motion ?" " It is true we are totally unable to conceive any such higher mode of being. But this is not a reason for questioning... | |
 | Herbert Spencer - 1872 - 602 pages
...whereas the choice is rather between personality an.d something higher. Is it not just possible that there is a mode of being as much transcending Intelligence...these transcend mechanical motion ? It is true that wo are totally unable to conceive any such higher mode of being. But this is not a reason for questioning... | |
 | George St. Clair - 1873 - 280 pages
...there, then, such a Will and Intelligence above us ? Mr Spencer asks, Is it not just possible that there is a mode of being as much transcending Intelligence and Will as these transcend mechanical motion ? 2 It is difficult to admit the possibility. He thinks that the Ultimate Cause cannot in any respect... | |
 | 1874 - 818 pages
...quite sharply of those who predicate personality of the first cause, and asks whether there may not be a mode of being as much transcending intelligence and will as these transcend mechanical motion. The ultimate cause, he says, cannot be \n any respect conceived by us, because it is in every respect... | |
 | Charles Hodge - 1874 - 190 pages
...' or anything else, except that it is the cause of all that we perceive or experience. There may be a mode of being, as much transcending intelligence and will, as these transcend mechanical motion. To show the folly of referring to the Unknown the attributes of our own spirits, he makes " the grotesque... | |
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