 | England - 1859 - 824 pages
...keep its stand in the human mind, and lies in the very alphabet of theology. So of the Infinite — "The Infinite, if it is to be conceived at all, must...as potentially everything, and actually nothing." — P. 76. Such a conception escapes entirely from the arena of human thought. Many other hard things... | |
 | Frederick Denison Maurice - Rationalism - 1859 - 524 pages
...only " be given as unlimited and indifferent. " That man can be conscious of the Infinite, is " thus a supposition which, in the very terms in " which it is expressed, annihilates itself. Conscious" ness is essentially a limitation ; for it is the deter" mination of the mind to one actual... | |
 | Frederick Denison Maurice - 1859 - 516 pages
...only " be given as unlimited and indifferent. " That man can be conscious of the Infinite, is " thus a supposition which, in the very terms in " which it is expressed, annihilates itself. Conscious" ness is essentially a limitation; for it is the deter" mination of the mind to one actual... | |
 | 1859 - 806 pages
...can only be given as unlimited and indifferent. That man can be conscious of the Infinite, is thus a supposition which, in the very terms in which it is expressed, annihilates itself. Consciousness it essentially a limitation ; for it is the determination of the mind to one actual out... | |
 | Henry Boynton Smith, James Manning Sherwood - Presbyterianism - 1860 - 772 pages
...consciousness limit thought to the finite and the relative. " That man can be conscious of the Infinite is thus a supposition, which, in the very terms in which it is expressed, annihilates itself." " A consciousness of the Infinite, as such, involves a self-contradiction." " The Infinite, from a... | |
 | Henry Longueville Mansel - 1860 - 389 pages
...only be given as unlimited and indifferent. (2) That man can be conscious of the Infinite, is thus a supposition which, in the very terms in which it is expressed, annihilates itself. Consciousness is essentially a limitation ; for it is the determination of the mind to one actual out... | |
 | M. P. W. Bolton - Absolute, The - 1861 - 88 pages
...can only be given as unlimited and indifferent. " That man can be conscious of the Infinite, is thus a supposition which, in the very terms in which it is expressed, annihilates itself. . . . " This contradiction, which is utterly inexplicable on the supposition that the infinite is a... | |
 | Jesse Henry Jones - Theism - 1865 - 252 pages
...time have nothing in common with the finite " That a man can be conscious of the Infinite, is thus a supposition which, in the very terms in which it is expressed, annihilates itself. Consciousness is essentially a limitation ; for it is the determination of the mind to one actual out... | |
 | Jesse Henry Jones - Theism - 1865 - 236 pages
...nothing in common with the finite. . . . . . " That a man can be conscious of the Infinite, is thus a supposition which, in the very terms in which it is expressed, annihilates itself. Consciousness is essentially a limitation ; for it is the determination of the mind to one actual out... | |
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Consciousness is essentially a limitation ; for it is the determination of the mind to one actual out of many possible modifications. But the Infinite, if it is to be conceived at all... 
