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England: Her People, Polity, and Pursuits - Page 497
by Thomas Hay Sweet Escott - 1880 - 625 pages
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National Review, Volume 15

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...
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Littell's Living Age, Volume 201

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...
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First Principles

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...
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The National Review, Volume 15

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...
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New Englander and Yale Review, Volume 22

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...
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First Principles of a New System of Philosophy

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...
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First Principles of a New System of Philosophy

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...
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Essays Philosophical and Theological, Volume 1

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...
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First Principles of a New System of Philosophy

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...
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First Principles of a New System of Philosophy

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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