 | Wilfrid Philip Ward - 1886 - 144 pages
...Trinity — Infinity, Eternity, and Energy. It is "absolutely certain," he says, that we are in " the presence of an Infinite and Eternal Energy, from which all things proceed ". And this Unknowable energy is, he explains, the true object of the sentiments of awe and worship... | |
 | Alexander Balmain Bruce - 1886 - 404 pages
...Nineteenth Century, vol. xvi., p. 23. tSir James Stephen, in Nineteenth Century, vol. xv., p. 917. presence of an Infinite and Eternal Energy, from which all things proceed." * But while humanity as an object of pity and philanthropic service is ever near, humanity as an object... | |
 | 1886 - 556 pages
...spirit, we say. But that is not enough for Rcligion. To be — in the words of Spencer — " ever in presence of an Infinite and Eternal Energy, from which all things proceed," this is grand and wonderful. But Religion has dared to hope that this infinite power was Father and... | |
 | Literary and Philosophical Society of Liverpool - 1886 - 696 pages
...the more they are thought about, there ivill remain the one absolute certainty—that ice are ever in presence of an infinite and eternal energy from which all things proceed. One rises from the study of Mr. Spencer's book with feelings it is by no means easy to analyse. Its... | |
 | 1886 - 244 pages
...spirit, we say. But that is not enough for Eeligion. To be — in the words of Spencer — " ever in presence of an Infinite and Eternal Energy, from which all things proceed," this is grand and wonderful. But Eeligion has dared to hope that this infinite power was Father and... | |
 | James Osgood Andrew Clark - 1886 - 414 pages
...more I hoy 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." This "infinite and eternal Energy" which the proud infidel Ego seeks, if haply he may feel after it... | |
 | William Cochrane - 1886 - 568 pages
...more they are thought about, there will remain the one absolute certainty, that man is ever in the presence of an Infinite and Eternal Energy, from which all things proceed." One is amazed to understand how intelligent men, far less such as profess a profound knowledge of the... | |
 | Moses True Brown - 1886 - 322 pages
...more they are thought about, there will remain the one absolute certainty, that man is ever in the presence of an Infinite and Eternal Energy from which all things proceed." And Oken, interpreting the problem from the metaphysical side, said : " The Universe is an analysis... | |
 | J. C. Street - 1887 - 658 pages
...one should deny the existence of God, there is one absolute certainty — that one is always in the presence of an infinite and eternal energy from which all things proceed, it being the fountain-head of human sensibilities and sympathy. Sensation is the only means of knowledge,... | |
 | Minot Judson Savage - 1887 - 218 pages
...about, there will remain the one absolute certainty that he [that is, each one of us] is ever in the presence of an Infinite and Eternal Energy, from which all things proceed." And what of this Eternal Energy ? What of its nature ? The same authority pronounces this verdict :... | |
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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. 
