 And by a wonderful revelation, we are thus, in the very consciousness of our inability to conceive aught above the relative and finite, inspired with a belief in the existence of something unconditioned beyond the sphere of all comprehensible reality.*...  The New Monthly Magazine - Page 3621853Full view - About this book
 | Sir Henry Craik - English prose literature - 1896 - 800 pages
...very consciousness of our inability to conceive aught above the relative and finite, inspired with a belief in the existence of something unconditioned beyond the sphere of all comprehensible reality. (From the Same.) THE NECESSARY LAWS OF THOUGHT THE highest of all logical laws, in other words, the... | |
 | Charles Darwin - Beagle Expedition - 1897 - 714 pages
...very consciousness of our inability to conceive aught above the relative and finite, inspired with a belief in the existence of something unconditioned beyond the sphere of all comprehensible reality." Clear and conclusive as this statement of the case appears when carefully studied, it is expressed... | |
 | Paul Janet, Gabriel Séailles - Philosophy - 1902 - 402 pages
...very consciousness of our inability to conceive aught above the relative and finite, inspired with a belief in the existence of something unconditioned beyond the sphere of all comprehensible reality " (Discussions: Philosophy of the Unconditioned,^. 15). Mansell, a disciple of Hamilton, carried his... | |
 | Henry Laurie - Philosophers - 1902 - 360 pages
...very consciousness of our inability to conceive aught above the relative and finite, inspired with a belief in the existence of something unconditioned beyond the sphere of all reprehensible reality." A "learned ignorance" is pronounced to be the consummation of knowledge. Faith... | |
 | William Henry Hodge - Intuition - 1903 - 502 pages
...of perception. Sir William Hamilton says : " By a wonderful revelation . . . we are inspired with a belief in the existence of something unconditioned beyond the sphere of all comprehensive reality." Dr. McCosh says " No man is entitled to restrict himself to cognitions, and... | |
 | Henry Sidgwick - Philosophy - 1905 - 498 pages
...very consciousness of our inability to conceive aught above the relative and finite, inspired with a belief in the existence of something unconditioned beyond the sphere of all comprehensible reality"; * and Mr. Spencer holds that we necessarily affirm its existence as logically implied in the existence... | |
 | Herbert Spencer - 1910 - 280 pages
...very consciousness of our inability to conceive aught above the relative and finite, inspired with a belief in the existence of something unconditioned beyond the sphere of all comprehensible reality." The last of these assertions practically admits that which the first denies. By the laws of thought... | |
 | Methodist Church - 1861 - 712 pages
...very consciousness of our inability to conceive aught above the relative and finite, inspired with a belief in the existence of something unconditioned beyond the sphere of all comprehensible reality. It is difficult to define accurately in words, and still more difficult to conceive, what Hamilton... | |
 | Borden Parker Bowne - 1912 - 464 pages
...very consciousness of our inability to conceive aught above the relative and finite, inspired with a belief in the existence of something unconditioned beyond the sphere of all comprehensible reality." (Page 63.) Mansel also says: "The Absolute, on the other hand, is a term expressing no object of thought,... | |
 | George Perrigo Conger - Philosophy - 1924 - 638 pages
...regulative concepts and Schelling's doctrine of intuition, but held that by faith we might believe in the existence of something unconditioned beyond the sphere of all comprehensible reality ("Philosophy of the Unconditioned" in Discussions on Philosophy and Literature, third edition, 1806,... | |
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