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... First Principles of a New System of Philosophy - Page 113by Herbert Spencer - 1864 - 508 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... | |
| 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... | |
| 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... | |
| 1873 - 406 pages
...had a creator, but whether it had or no we have now no means of determining, and it is therefore " alike our highest wisdom and our highest duty to regard that through which all things exist as the unknowable."1 In the education of the rising generation, the upholders of these theories tell us, no... | |
| William Jackson - 1874 - 432 pages
...Spencer, aucune lumiere." The last negative clause is amply justified on p. 113 of "First Principles." "By continually seeking to know, and being continually...through which all things exist as The Unknowable." And this closing word becomes with Spencer, the constant name of a Power, the consciousness of which... | |
| William Jackson - 1874 - 436 pages
...Spencer, aucune lumiere." The last negative clause is amply justified on p. 113 of "First Principles." "By continually seeking to know, and being continually...through which all things exist as The Unknowable." And this closing word becomes with Spencer, the constant name of a Power, the consciousness of which... | |
| William Jackson - 1875 - 452 pages
...Spencer, aucune lumiere." The last negative clause is amply justified on p. 113 of "First Principles:' " By continually seeking to know, and being continually...consciousness that it is alike our highest wisdom and'our highest duty to regard that through which all things exist as The Unknowable." And this closing... | |
| Lyman Abbott - 1875 - 408 pages
...can never find the soft bosom of the mother in whose heart it can nestle." — (0. B. Frothitigfiam.) "It is alike our highest wisdom and our highest duty...through which all things exist as the ' Unknowable.' "— (Herbert Spencer.) Christianity represents him as our Shepherd, our Guardian, our Guide, our constant... | |
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