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
| Chambers W. and R., ltd - 1875 - 840 pages
...thinkable, he denies that it must necessarily be adopted. ' Is it not just possible,' he says, 'that there is a mode of being as much transcending intelligence...questioning its existence ; it is rather the reverse. It may be answered, however, that a mode of existence which we are ' totally unable to conceive ' can... | |
| 1875 - 842 pages
...whereas the choice rather is between personality and something higher. Is it not just possible that there is a mode of being as much transcending Intelligence...questioning its existence ; it is rather the reverse. . . . And may we not, therefore, rightly refrain from assigning to it any attributes whatever, on the... | |
| 1875 - 822 pages
...rather between personality and something higher." He goes on to ask, " Is it not just possible that there is a mode of being as much transcending intelligence and will, as these transcend mechanical motion?" (p. 109.) He then lectures the hesitating theist on the audacity and impiety of presuming "to penetrate... | |
| 1875 - 808 pages
...respect greater than can be conceived." (First Principles, 109.) And yet he says, " It is possible that there is a mode of being as much transcending intelligence and will, as these transcend mechanical motion ; and that our total inability to conceive any such higher mode of being is not only no reason for... | |
| Edward Royall Tyler, William Lathrop Kingsley, George Park Fisher, Timothy Dwight - 1875 - 966 pages
...may take place, the something higher most be as comprehensible as personality. But the author admits that " we are totally unable to conceive any such higher mode of being." (p. 109.) This being the case, he proposes ti as an alternative choice, with one of the alternatives... | |
| Thomas Hill - 1877 - 160 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 in any respect conceived by us, because it is in every respect... | |
| Nathaniel Ramsay Waters - 1877 - 368 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 aa these transcend mechanical motion ?" — HERBERT SPENCER : First Principles, Am. ed. , p. 1C9. To... | |
| WM. James - 1878 - 460 pages
...well as forwards. He remarks, further on : " Is it not just possible that there is a mode of being transcending intelligence and will, as 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... | |
| Constance E. Plumptre - 1879 - 366 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...It is true that we are totally unable to conceive anv such higher mode of being. But this is not a reason for questioning its existence; it is rather... | |
| Newman Smyth - 1879 - 408 pages
...the words which he uses of his imagined superhuman personality. " It is true," Mr. Spencer says,* " that we are totally unable to conceive any such higher...reason for questioning its existence ; it is rather tire reverse:" But we have already passed to a question of the interpretation of the appearance and... | |
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