 Amid the mysteries which become the more mysterious the more they are thought about, there will remain the ONE absolute certainty, that he is ever in the presence of an Infinite and Eternal Energy from which all things proceed.  The Popular Science Monthly - Page 7801885Full view - About this book
 | 1926 - 358 pages
...line of argument is well summed up by Herbert Spencer : " The one absolute certainty is, that we are ever in the presence of an infinite and eternal Energy from which all things proceed " ; but which, not accepting Christianity, he states is unknowable. Science, however, is limited to... | |
 | James Hastings, John Alexander Selbie, Louis Herbert Gray - 1914 - 922 pages
...all the mystery of our inscrutable existence ' there remains the one absolute certainty that we are in the presence of an Infinite and Eternal Energy, from which all things proceed,' but that it is unknowable (Eccles. In-st. p. 843 ; cf. First Principles, pt. i. ch. 2 [ed. 1900, p.... | |
 | Harriet Ayer Seymour - 1920 - 214 pages
...mysterious the more they are thought about, there will remain the one absolute certainty, that we are ever in the presence of an infinite and eternal energy, from which all things proceed. — HERBERT SPENCER. IMAGINE the world without rhythm and 1 perhaps you can get some conception of... | |
 | Sherwood Eddy - 1927 - 216 pages
...mystery. He seems to stand in the presence of reality. With Spencer he feels himself to be "everywhere in the presence of an infinite and eternal energy from which all things proceed." But what is the nature of that energy? Is it like matter or mind ? Is the universe mere mechanism or... | |
 | Lyman Abbott, Hamilton Wright Mabie, Ernest Hamlin Abbott, Francis Rufus Bellamy - 1915 - 1062 pages
...the more they are thought about, there will remain the- one absolute certainty, that he is ever in presence of an Infinite and Eternal Energy, from which all things proceed." — Herbert Spencer: Religion : A Retrospect and Prospect. Question. Is this Power a mere material... | |
 | 1887 - 980 pages
...become the more mysterious the .re thought about, there will remain olute certainty, that we are ever in presence of an Infinite and Eternal Energy, from which all things proceed." Such leaders of thought as Professors Lotze in Germany and Bowne in this country, and many other metaphysicians... | |
 | 1886 - 690 pages
...mysterious the more they are thought about, there will remain the one absolute certainty, that he is ever in presence of an Infinite and Eternal Energy from which all things proceed." These deductions were undoubtedly legitimately to be drawn from all Mr. Spencer's previous discussions... | |
 | Victoria Institute (Great Britain) - 1890 - 410 pages
...more mysterious the more they are thought about, there will remain the one absolute certainty that he is ever in the presence of an Infinite and Eternal Energy." From this "Infinite and Eternal Energy" — he is careful to use capital letters, — he declares " all... | |
 | 1884 - 1104 pages
...positive creed ? It would seem so ; for Mr. Spencer brings us at last ' to the one absolute certainty, the presence of an Infinite and Eternal Energy, from which all things proceed.' But let no one suppose that this is merely a new name for the Great First Cause of so many theologies... | |
 | Ralph Tyler Flewelling - 1920 - 504 pages
...scientific necessity; and Herbert Spencer's words that there is "the one absolute certainty that we are ever in the presence of an infinite and Eternal Energy from which all things proceed." But what is the character of this Eternal Energy ? Is it a being, who, after his creative acts, exists... | |
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