 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
 | Church congress - 1888 - 790 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 as these transcend mechanical motions? It is true that we are totally unable to conceive any such higher mode of being. But this... | |
 | Joseph Maximillian Hark - 1888 - 306 pages
...either of these unqualifiedly to God. And I too recognize with Mr. Spencer not only the possibility of " a mode of being as much transcending intelligence and will as these transcend mechanical motion," but the necessity of regarding the divine, from what we already know of it, as such a mode of 18 The... | |
 | 1888 - 572 pages
...lead to agnosticism, although he quotes 389 with approbation Herbert Spencer's idea that God may be "a mode of being as much transcending intelligence and will as these transcend mechanical motion." He exposes the deistic conception of God as an immensely magnified man sitting somewhere outside of... | |
 | Literary and Philosophical Society of Liverpool - 1888 - 438 pages
...reply. ' Right,' said W., ' there was one negation, his, not yours. What next did he say ? He said — " It is true that we are totally unable to conceive any such." Mark that we. There are two negations ; on his part one, and on your part one. The thing is equally... | |
 | Literary and Philosophical Society of Liverpool - 1888 - 436 pages
...reply. 'Right,' said W., 'there was one negation, his, not yours. What next did he say ? He said — " It is true that we are totally unable to conceive any such." Mark that we. There are two negations ; on his part one, and on your part one. The thing is equally... | |
 | Literary and Philosophical Society of Liverpool - 1888 - 438 pages
...reply. 'Kight,' said W., 'there was one negation, his, not yours. What next did he say? He said — " It is true that we are totally unable to conceive any such." Mark that we. There are two negations ; on his part one, and on your part one. The thing is equally... | |
 | Charles Marsh Mead - 1889 - 496 pages
...In this Mr. Fiske is a faithful follower of Mr. Spencer, who asks us,7 "Is it not just possible that there is a mode of being as much transcending Intelligence...conceive any such higher mode of being. But this is not a 1 See p. 83. * Such as Carl Vogt, Moleschott, Buchner. Professor Flint (Anti-tkeittic Theoriet, Lect.... | |
 | Charles Chapman - 1891 - 332 pages
...Source and Sustaining Cause of all things. The passage reads thus:—" 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 no reason for questioning... | |
 | Church congress - 1891 - 438 pages
...choice is rather between personality and something higher. Is it not just possible," he asks, " that there is a mode of being, as much transcending intelligence and will as these transcend mechanical motion ? " Now this conception of God, whom Mr. Spencer elsewhere defines as an " infinite and eternal energy... | |
 | Herbert Spencer - 1892 - 656 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...existence ; it is rather the reverse. Have we not seei^ how utterly incompetent our minds are to form even an apjproach to a conception of that which... | |
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