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
| 1885 - 612 pages
...personality and something lower, but between personality and something higher. " Is it not just possible that there is a mode of being as much transcending Intelligence...are totally unable to conceive any such higher mode. But this is not a reason for questioning its existence ; it is rather the reverse." We have seen that... | |
| George Herbert Curteis - 1885 - 216 pages
...in Darwin gefiihrt." — (Strauss, Alte und neue Glaube, p. 219.) 2 " 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 totally unable to conceive any such higher mode of being. But this is not a reason for questioning... | |
| George Herbert Curteis - 1885 - 216 pages
...in Darwin gefiihrt." — (Strauss, Alte und ncue Glaube, p. 219.) 2 " 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 totally unable to conceive any such higher mode of being. But this is not a reason for questioning... | |
| 1885 - 626 pages
...is mere special pleading, and quite unlike his usual method, 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 ? " The fact that " we are totally unable to conceive any such higher mode of being," while " not a... | |
| Gail Hamilton, Herbert Spencer - 1885 - 300 pages
...existence of that Power to be of all things most certain. ' Is it not just possible,' he suggests, ' that there is a mode of being as much transcending Intelligence and Will as these transcend mechanical motion ? . . . Have we not seen how utterly incompetent our minds are to form even an approach to a conception... | |
| Gail Hamilton, Herbert Spencer - 1885 - 294 pages
...living soul basks in its full radiance, the risen sun of the whole Spiritual Universe. If there may be a mode of being as much transcending intelligence and will as these transcend mechanical motion, why should there not be a mode of being equally transcending love ? Why should not Mr. Spencer say... | |
| William Henry Platt - 1886 - 374 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...we are totally unable to conceive any such higher being. But this is not a reason for questioning ite existence ; it is rather the reverse. Have we not... | |
| 1886 - 436 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...we are totally unable to conceive any such higher being. But this is not a reason for questioning its existence; it is rather the reverse. Have we not... | |
| Herbert Spencer - 1888 - 642 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...are to form even an approach to a conception of that wbich underlies all phenomena ? Is it not proved that this incompetencv is the incompeteney of the... | |
| Nathaniel Ramsay Waters - 1888 - 380 pages
...whereas tho 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 ?" — HERBERT SPENCER : First Principles, Am. ed., p. 109. To turn away from the stony temples and... | |
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