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
| William Leslie Davidson - 1893 - 528 pages
...personal — " duty requires us neither to affirm nor deny personality," " Is it not just possible that there is a mode of being as much transcending Intelligence and Will, as these transcend mechanical motion?" (First Principles, 5th ed., p. 109). Now, what shall we say of this ? Obviously, three questions here... | |
| James Orr - 1893 - 586 pages
...choice is rather between personality and something higher," and asks — " Is it not just possible that there is a mode of being as much transcending intelligence and will, as these transcend mechanical motion?"2 — the answer (not to dwell on the utterly disparate character of the things compared) is... | |
| Jabez Thomas Sunderland, Brooke Herford, Frederick B. Mott - 1894 - 608 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 and Will as these transcend mechanical motion ?" That is a possibility about which we may truly answer in the words of the agnostic burden itself.... | |
| John Milton Bonham - 1894 - 412 pages
...whatever regarding the object of his reverence. If, as Mr. Spencer suggests, it is " possible that there is a mode of being as much transcending Intelligence and Will as these transcend mechanical motion, and that we are totally unable to conceive of the qualities of that higher mode of being," it is not... | |
| John Garnier - 1895 - 538 pages
...the infinite extension of the finite ? Mr. Spencer asks : ' Is it not just possible that there 18 ' a mode of being as much transcending intelligence and ' will, as these transcend mechanical motion ?' To speak of the Creator as having mere intelligence and will, as if He were an intelligent child... | |
| John Augustine Zahm - 1896 - 458 pages
...the Creative Power, the Infinite and Eternal Energy, by which all things are created and sustained ; a mode of being as much transcending intelligence and will as these transcend mechanical motion. '''First Principles," chap. n. Max Muller on Agnosticism. The distinguished philologist and orientalist,... | |
| comte Eugène Goblet d'Alviella - 1897 - 360 pages
...the Infinite. " Is it not just possible," he asks of those who accuse him of want of religion, "that there is a mode of being as much transcending Intelligence...Have we not seen how utterly incompetent our minds arc to form even an approach to a conception of that which underlies all phenomena? Is it not proved... | |
| James Lindsay - 1897 - 646 pages
...assure us that choice " lay between personality and something higher," and further, that there may be "a mode of being as much transcending intelligence...and will as these transcend mechanical motion." It refuses, on such grounds, to lose the religious interest in the morass of the Unknowable, where foothold... | |
| Paul Carus - 1898 - 754 pages
...the words of Mr. H. Spencer (.First Principles, Part I. Section 31). " 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 Christian theologian can accept all that. Mr. Matthew Arnold in Literature and Dogma satirised... | |
| Charles Wesley Rishell - 1899 - 654 pages
...respect, transcendently different from men. So much in fact he says. " Is it not just possible that there is a mode of being as much transcending intelligence...unable to conceive any such higher mode of being. But that is not a reason for questioning its existence ; it is rather the reverse."' This fairly commits... | |
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