 | 1884 - 1108 pages
...do not remember that Mr. Spencer, or any evolution philosopher, has ever formulated the Unknowable in terms with so deep a theological ring as we hear...and Eternal Energy, from which all things proceed.' The terms do seem, perhaps, rather needlessly big and absolute. And fully accepting Mr. Spencer's logical... | |
 | Frederic Harrison - 1885 - 254 pages
...do not remember that Mr. Spencer, or any Evolution philosopher, has ever formulated the Unknowable in terms with so deep a theological ring as we hear...and Eternal Energy, from which all things proceed." The terms do seem, perhaps, rather needlessly big and absolute. And fully accepting Mr. Spencer's logical... | |
 | Gail Hamilton, Herbert Spencer - 1885 - 296 pages
...practical Unreality ! ' I do not remember,' he says, ' that Mr. Spencer has ever formulated the Unknowable in terms with so deep a theological ring as we hear...and Eternal Energy, from which all things proceed." ' Certainly, then, Mr. Spencer and the theologians should embrace, not fight. ' Mr. Spencer has discovered... | |
 | Wilfrid Ward - 1893 - 356 pages
...Unknowable energy is, he has explained, the true object of the sentiments of awe and worship—and a far more worthy object than the old-fashioned God...that writer had endeavoured to infuse into it, in the followingpassage :— Fully accepting Mr. Spencer's logical canons, one does not see why it should... | |
 | John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell - 1884 - 892 pages
...do not remember that Mr. Spencer, or any evolution philosopher, has ever formulated the Unknowable in terms with so deep a theological ring as we hear...and Eternal Energy, from which all things proceed." The terms do seem, perhaps, rather needlessly big and absolute. And fully accepting Mr. Spencer's logical... | |
 | Frederic Harrison - 1907 - 468 pages
...do not remember that Mr. Spencer, or any evolution philosopher, has ever formulated the Unknowable in terms with so deep a theological ring as we hear...and Eternal Energy, from which all things proceed." The terms do seem, perhaps, rather needlessly big and absolute. And fully accepting Mr. Spencer's logical... | |
 | 1884 - 1104 pages
...do not remember that Mr. Spencer, or any evolution philosopher, has ever formulated the Unknowable in terms with so deep a theological ring as we hear...and Eternal Energy, from which all things proceed.' The terms do seem, perhaps, rather needlessly big and absolute. And fully accepting Mr. Spencer's logical... | |
 | 1884 - 866 pages
...sentiments of awe and worship — and a far more worthy object than the old-fashioned God whom it endeavors to replace. Here, then, is the religion which Mr....of the unction and enthusiasm which that writer had endeavored to infuse into it in the following passage : — Fully accepting Mr. Spencer's logical canons,... | |
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It shares some of the negative attributes of God and First Cause, but no positive one. It is, in fact, only the Unknowable a little more defined ; though I do not remember that Mr. Spencer, or any evolution philosopher, has ever formulated the Unknowable... 