By continually seeking to know and being continually thrown back with a deepened conviction of the impossibility of knowing, we may keep alive the consciousness that it is alike our highest wisdom and our highest duty to regard that through which all... England: Her People, Polity, and Pursuits - Page 497by Thomas Hay Sweet Escott - 1880 - 625 pagesFull view - About this book
| 1862 - 454 pages
...Absolute" these things are all " impieties." And the " true religion" which condemns them consists in " the consciousness that it is alike our highest wisdom...through which all things exist as The Unknowable" (p. 113). When we ask against whom, what dear object of sacred loyalty, our grievous irreverence has... | |
| 1894 - 856 pages
...is contained in the words : " Bv continually seeking to know, and continually being thrown back on the impossibility of knowing, we may keep alive the...through which all things exist as the unknowable." l The analogy already suggested of light and the eye may serve to show the untenability of this assertion... | |
| Herbert Spencer - 1862 - 528 pages
...minds a due sense of the incommensurable difference between the Conditioned and the Unconditioned. By continually seeking to know and being continually...through which all things exist as The Unknowable. § 32. An immense majority will refuse with more or less of indignation,' a belief seeming to them... | |
| Richard Holt Hutton, Walter Bagehot - 1862 - 448 pages
...Absolute" these things are all " impieties." And the " true religion" which condemns them consists in " the consciousness that it is alike our highest wisdom...through which all things exist as The Unknowable" (p. 113). When we ask against whom, what dear object of sacred loyalty, our grievous irreverence has... | |
| Edward Royall Tyler, William Lathrop Kingsley, George Park Fisher, Timothy Dwight - 1863 - 878 pages
...that which we vainly strive to grasp By continually seeking to know, and being continually thrown bock with a deepened conviction of the impossibility of...through which all things exist as The Unknowable." p. 113. Anticipating that an immense majority will reject, with more or less of indignation, the views... | |
| Herbert Spencer - 1864 - 538 pages
...minds a due sense of the incommensurable difference between the Conditioned and the Unconditioned. By continually seeking to know and being continually...through which all things exist as The Unknowable. § 32. An immense majority will refuse with more or less of indignation,- a belief seeming to them... | |
| Herbert Spencer - 1865 - 528 pages
...Conditioned and the Unconditioned. By continually seeking to know and being continually thrown .^baek^with a"* deepened conviction of the impossibility of knowing, we may keep alive the consciousness.that it ia alike-our highest wisdom and our highest duty to regard that through which... | |
| James Martineau - 1866 - 446 pages
...Absolute " these things are all "impieties." And the "true religion" which condemns them consists in " the consciousness that it is alike our highest wisdom...through which all things exist as The Unknowable" (p. 113). When we ask against whom, what dear object of sacred loyalty, our grievous irreverence has... | |
| Herbert Spencer - 1870 - 600 pages
...minds a due sense of the incommensurable difference between the Conditioned and the Unconditioned. By continually seeking to know and being continually...through which all things exist as The Unknowable. § 32. An immense majority will refuse with more or less of indignation, a belief seeming to them so... | |
| Herbert Spencer - 1872 - 602 pages
...minds a due sense of the incommensurable difference between the Conditioned and the Unconditioned. JBy continually seeking to know and being continually...deepened conviction of the impossibility of knowing, wo may keep alive the consciousness that it is alike our highest wisdom and our highest duty to regard... | |
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