 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
 | James Ward - 1899 - 320 pages
...choice is between personality and something higher," and elsewhere suggests that to it may belong " a mode of being as much transcending intelligence and will, as these transcend mechanical motion." " This consciousness of an Incomprehensible Power," Mr. Spencer goes on to say, " is just that consciousness... | |
 | Chauncey Bunce Brewster - 1901 - 316 pages
...that " 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 motion?" 2 He is obliged to concede " that we are totally unable to conceive any such higher mode of being."... | |
 | 1901 - 626 pages
...The choice is rather between personality and something that may be higher. Is it not possible that there is a mode of being as much transcending Intelligence and Will as these transcend mechanical motion? Doubt'ess we are totally unable to imagine any such higher mode of being. But this is not a reason... | |
 | Chauncey Bunce Brewster - 1901 - 312 pages
...that " 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 motion?"2 He is obliged to concede " that we are totally unable to conceive any such higher mode of... | |
 | John Marshall Lang - 1902 - 424 pages
...sufficient to reply, in the language which Herbert Spencer connects with the idea of the Absolute, " It is true that we are totally unable to conceive...questioning its existence; it is rather the reverse." 3 1 Nicene Creed. 2 Hilary, De Trinitate, 2. 2, 4. A more serious difficulty is indicated in the argument... | |
 | Sydney Herbert Mellone - 1902 - 356 pages
...personality ; whereas the choice is rather between personality and something higher. Is it not possible that there is a mode of Being as much transcending intelligence and will as these transcend mechanical motion 1 It is true that we are totally unable to conceive any such higher mode of being. But this is not... | |
 | Charles Carroll Everett - 1902 - 294 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 motion?" If we compare the "Is it not possible" of Spencer with the "must be" of Parker, we shall see how near... | |
 | George Stuart Fullerton - 1904 - 652 pages
...thereby authorizes us to profess and act them out; we must not in our thought degrade it, for it may have a mode of being as much transcending Intelligence and Will as these transcend mechanical motion. Manifestly, this cannot be written of a raw material whose very rawness is due to the fact that such... | |
 | Caleb Williams Saleeby - 1904 - 386 pages
...personal God and something lower, but between a personal God and something higher. The Eternal may be "a mode of being as much transcending intelligence and will as these transcend mechanical motion." This, verily, is the "higher pantheism." Mr. Picton, building on this foundation, in his book, The... | |
 | Francis Ellingwood Abbot - 1906 - 398 pages
...Intelligence and Will as these transcend mechanical motion? Doubtless we are totally unable to imagine any such higher mode of being. But this is not a reason...questioning its existence; it is rather the reverse." Most certainly so. Nothing could be more admirably spoken, and the manifest truth of the words has... | |
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