 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 M. Lacy - 1912 - 264 pages
...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... | |
 | Charles Albert Dubray - 1912 - 658 pages
...infinite essentially human concepts, finite, and out of proportion to God. "Is it not just possible that there is a mode of being as much transcending intelligence...will as these transcend mechanical motion? " It is an erroneous assumption to suppose " that the choice is between personality and something lower than... | |
 | Algernon Blackwood - 1912 - 380 pages
...Russian " ? ' ' I have known before, yes, and carefully studied.' IX '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. THE two men left the rail and walked arm in arm along the... | |
 | Pearson M'Adam Muir - 1912 - 288 pages
...lower than Personality, 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 ? ' 2 The description of Personality given by the author of the Riddle of the Universe would be repudiated... | |
 | Alfred Fairhurst - 1913 - 502 pages
...our belief in this power the basis of life's work. Mr. Spencer says: "Is it not just possible that there is a mode of being as much transcending Intelligence...questioning its existence; it is rather the reverse."* This quotation contains the very remarkable statement that we may affirm the existence of a power which... | |
 | Sydney Herbert Mellone - 1916 - 308 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 ? Doubtless we are totally unable to imagine any such higher mode of being. But this is not a reason... | |
 | James McKeen Cattell - 1927 - 622 pages
...has not to choose between the two; it may be superpersonal. Is it not just possible [he says] that there is a mode of being as much transcending intelligence and will, as these transcend mechanical motion f It is true that we are totally unable to conceive any such higher mode of being. But this is not... | |
 | Geoffrey Hawthorn - 1987 - 332 pages
...a clear demarcation between the knowable and the unknowable. 'Is it not possible', he asked, 'that there is a mode of being as much transcending 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', he continues,... | |
 | Albert R. Parsons - 1996 - 122 pages
...personality and something lower than personality, but between personality and something higher. ... It is true that we are totally unable to conceive...questioning its existence ; it is rather the reverse. ... In all imaginable ways we find thrust upon us the truth, that we are not permitted to know —... | |
 | Asa Mahan - 2003 - 494 pages
...personality, whereas the choice is between personality and something higher. Is it not just as possible that there is a mode of being as much transcending Intelligence and Will as these transcend mechanical motion?' In reply, we would assure Spencer that 'God we know, and religion we know,' and that through these... | |
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