...its chilling emptiness. That is to say, instead of exalting our ideas of the Supreme, and suggesting 'a mode of Being as much ' transcending intelligence...and will as these transcend ' mechanical motion,' our ideas of Him have been reduced to miserable destitution, expressively indicated by the fact that...

...chilling emptiness. That is to say, instead of exalting our ideas of the Supreme, and suggesting ' a mode of Being as much ' transcending intelligence...and will as these transcend ' mechanical motion,' our ideas of Him have been reduced to miserable destitution, expressively indicated by the fact that...

...the Supreme Being by refusing to invest him with personality. There may be, Mr. Spencer suggests, " a mode of being as much transcending intelligence and will as these transcend mechanical motion." This no one will deny, for no one claims that the designation of the Supreme Being, as personal, is...

...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...questioning its existence ; it is rather the reverse The Ultimate Cause cannot in any respect be conceived by us because it is in every respect greater...

...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...questioning its existence ; it is rather the reverse." But we have already passed to a questioa of the interpretation of the appearance and laws of nature....

...probabilities. " Is it not just possible," asks the author, reflecting on the nature of the inscrutable, "that there is a mode of being as much transcending Intelligence...questioning its existence; it is rather the reverse." (First Prin., § 31.) Following this example, any one might argue that the outer world is just what...

...originated by an infinite and perfect mind is ' the carpenter theory ' — that ' it is possible that there is a mode of being as much transcending intelligence and will as these transcend mechanical motion ;' that ' the religious sentiment in man must ever continue to occupy itself with a universal causal...

...personality e" in God; and he makes the startling statement that the true conception of the Unknowable may be a mode of being as much transcending Intelligence and Will as these transcend mechanical motion. The following are his words : — " In the estimate it implies of the Ultimate Cause, it does not fall...

...personality s" in God; and he makes the startling statement that the true conception of the Unknowable may be a mode of being as much transcending Intelligence and Will as these transcend mechanical motion. The following are his words : — " In the estimate it implies of the Ultimate Cause, it does not fall...

...choice is rather between personality and something higher.' He asks, ' Is it not just possible that there is a mode of being as much transcending intelligence and will as these transcend mechanical motion ?'* Mr. Matthew Arnold in some sense denies to God thought and love. To make God personal appears to...