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" The Infinite, if it is to be conceived at all, must be conceived as potentially everything and actually nothing; for if there is anything in general which it cannot become, it is thereby limited; and if there is anything in particular which it actually... "
On the Nature and the Existence of God - Page 16
by Annie Besant - 1875 - 36 pages
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The Christian observer [afterw.] The Christian observer and advocate

1859 - 890 pages
...limited ; and if any particular thing which it is, it is thereby excluded from being any other thing. But it must also be conceived as actually everything, and potentially nothing ; for an unrealized potentiality is also a limitation." (p. 71.) " The Infinite cannot be distinguished, as...
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The British and Foreign Evangelical Review, Volume 10

James Oswald Dykes, James Stuart Candlish, Hugh Sinclair Paterson, Joseph Samuel Exell - Theology - 1861 - 994 pages
...particular which it actually is, it is thereby excluded from being any other thing. But again, it must be conceived as actually everything, and potentially...potentiality is likewise a limitation. If the infinite can be that which it is not, it is by that very possibility marked out as incomplete and capable of a higher...
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The Philosophy of the Conditioned: Comprising Some Remarks on Sir William ...

Henry Longueville Mansel - Knowledge, Theory of - 1866 - 208 pages
...if it were intended to prove another. He cites a passage from Mr. Mansel, in which it is said that " the Infinite, if it is to be conceived at all, must...potentiality is likewise a limitation. If the Infinite can be that which it is not, it is by that very possibility marked out as incomplete, and capable of a higher...
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The Philosophy of the Conditioned: Comprising Some Remarks on Sir William ...

Henry Longueville Mansel - 1866 - 214 pages
...it were intended to prove another. He cites a passage from Mr. Mansel, in which- it is said that " the Infinite, if it is to be conceived at all, must...potentiality is likewise a limitation. If the Infinite can be that which it is not, it is by that very possibility marked out as incomplete, and capable of a higher...
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The Contemporary Review, Volume 1

Great Britain - 1866 - 690 pages
...if it were intended to prove another. He cites a passage from Mr. Mausel, in which it is said that " the Infinite, if it is to be conceived at all, must...potentiality is likewise a limitation. If the Infinite can be that which it is not, it is by that very possibility marked out as incomplete, and capable of a higher...
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Our Corner, Volume 4

Annie Besant - Free thought - 1884 - 468 pages
...phrases, and think whither they carry us. Dean Mansel is speaking of God as Infinite, and he says : " That a man can be conscious of the Infinite is, then,...potentiality is likewise a limitation. If the infinite can be that which it is not, it is by that very possibility marked out as incomplete and capable of a higher...
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Autobiographical Sketches

Annie Besant - Religion - 1885 - 178 pages
...phrases, and think whither they carry •us. Dean Mansel is speaking of God as Infinite, and lie says: "That a man can be conscious of the Infinite is, then,...potentiality is likewise a limitation. If the infinite can be that which it is not, it is by that very possibility marked out as incomplete and capable of a higher...
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Autobiographical Sketches

Annie Besant - Religion - 1885 - 220 pages
...which it actually is, it is thereby excluded from being any other thing. Eut again, it must also bo conceived as actually everything and potentially nothing:...potentiality is likewise a limitation. If the infinite can be that which it is not, it is by that very possibility marked out as incomplete and capable of a higher...
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An Examination of Sir William Hamilton's Philosophy: And of the Principal ...

John Stuart Mill - Philosophy - 1889 - 700 pages
...at all, must be conceived as potentially everything and " actually nothing; for if there is anything general which <; it cannot become, it is thereby limited...is " likewise a limitation. If the infinite can be that which " it is not, it is by that very possibility marked out as " incomplete, and capable of a...
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The English Utilitarians, Volume 3

Leslie Stephen - Utilitarianism - 1900 - 542 pages
...is anything in particular which it actually is, it is thereby excluded from being any other thing.1 It must also be conceived as ' actually everything...unrealised potentiality is likewise a limitation.' Hamilton had put the same argument. ' The infinite is conceived only by thinking away every character...
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