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" 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 783
1885
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Chambers's information for the people, ed. by W. and R ..., Volume 2; Volume 42

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...
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The British and Foreign Evangelical Review and Quarterly Record of Christian ...

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...
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The New Englander, Volume 34

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...
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The Presbyterian Quarterly and Princeton Review, Volume 4

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...
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New Englander and Yale Review, Volume 34

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...
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A Statement of the Natural Sources of Theology: With a Discussion of Their ...

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...
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Through Rome on: A Memoir of Christian and Extra-Christian Experience

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...
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The Journal of Speculative Philosophy

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...
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General Sketch of the History of Pantheism, Volume 2

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...
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Old Faiths in New Light

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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