 | Thomas Henry Huxley - 1870 - 448 pages
...attention of men who have work to do in the world. And he thus ends one of his essays : — " If we take in hand any volume of Divinity, or school metaphysics,...any abstract reasoning concerning quantity or number 1 No. Does it contain any experimental reasoning concerning matter of fact and existence ? No. Commit... | |
 | Thomas Henry Huxley - 1870 - 56 pages
...attention of men who have work to do in the world. And thus ends one of his essays : " If we take in hand any volume of Divinity, or school metaphysics,...any abstract reasoning concerning quantity or number 7 No. Docs it contain any experimental reasoning concerning matter of fact and existence ? No. Commit... | |
 | Edward Royall Tyler, William Lathrop Kingsley, George Park Fisher, Timothy Dwight - 1870 - 752 pages
...any abstract reatoning concerning quantity or numberf No. Doet it contain any experimental reananing concerning matter of fact and existence? No. Commit...it can contain nothing but sophistry and illusion." He boldly declared that all inquiries about spiritual things lie "outside of the limits of philosophical... | |
 | 1871 - 608 pages
...attention of men who have work to do in the world. And he thus ends one of his Essays. ' If we take in hand any volume of Divinity, or school metaphysics,...let us ask, Does it contain any abstract reasoning about quantity or number ? No. Does it contain any experimental reasoning concerning matter of fact... | |
 | Thomas Henry Huxley - 1870 - 444 pages
...attention of men who have work to do in the world. And he thus ends one of his essays : — " If we take in hand any volume of Divinity, or school metaphysics,...let us ask, Does it contain any abstract reasoning concentiwf quantity or number ? No. Does it contain any experimental reasoning concerning matter of... | |
 | Edward Royall Tyler, William Lathrop Kingsley, George Park Fisher, Timothy Dwight - 1870 - 750 pages
...hand any volume of Divinity or school metaphysics, let us ask, Doft it contain any abstract reatoning concerning quantity or number? No. Does it contain...reasoning concerning matter of fact and existence t No. Commit it then to the flames ; for it can contain nothing but sophistry and illusion." He boldly... | |
 | Thomas Henry Huxley - 1871 - 408 pages
...of men who have work to do in the world. And he thus ends one of his essays : — " If we take in. hand any volume of Divinity, or school metaphysics,...it can contain nothing but sophistry and illusion." 1 Permit me to enforce this most wise advice. "Why trouble ourselves about matters of which, however... | |
 | 1871 - 780 pages
...then he quotes the following passage from his great master and teacher, David Hume—" If we take in hand any volume of divinity, or school metaphysics,...it can contain nothing but sophistry and illusion." " Permit me," says Dr. Huxley, " to enforce this most wise advice." Well, wise or otherwise, if we... | |
 | 1871 - 318 pages
...attention of men who have work to do in the world. And thus ends one of his essays : " If we take in hand any volume of Divinity, or school metaphysics,...it can contain nothing but sophistry and illusion." Permit me to enforce this most wise advice. Why trouble ourselves about matters of which, however important... | |
 | John Bascom - 1871 - 338 pages
...entire truth that called it into existence. He gives echo to these words of Hume : " If we take in hand any volume of Divinity, or school metaphysics,...Does it contain any experimental reasoning concerning matter-of-fact and existence ? No. Commit it then to the flames ; for it can contain nothing but sophistry... | |
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When we run over libraries, persuaded of these principles, what havoc must we make? If we take in our hand any volume; of divinity or school metaphysics, for instance; let us ask, Does it contain any abstract reasoning concerning quantity or number'}... 
