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" ... two extremes ; one of which, however, on the ground of their mutual repugnance, it is compelled to recognize as true. We are thus taught the salutary lesson, that the capacity of thought is not to be constituted. into the measure of existence ; and... "
First Principles of a New System of Philosophy - Page 76
by Herbert Spencer - 1864 - 508 pages
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Elements of Psychology: Included in a Critical Examination of Locke's Essay ...

Victor Cousin - 1834 - 398 pages
...wonderful revelation, we are thus, in the very consciousness of our inability to conceive aught beyond the relative and finite, inspired with a belief in...beyond the sphere of all comprehensible reality." In regard to the doctrine of Cousin, the writer then en. deavors to show : " in the first place that...
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The Methodist Quarterly Review, Volume 43

1861 - 716 pages
...though, as we must think, with the grossest inconsistency : " Thus, by a wonderful revelation, we are, in the very consciousness of our inability to conceive...beyond the sphere of all comprehensible reality." That is indeed a " wonderful revelation " which reveals the unthinkable to thought, in violation of...
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Man Primeval, Or, The Constitution and Primitive Condition of the Human ...

John Harris - 1849 - 526 pages
...wonderful revelation, we are thus, in the very consciousness of our inability to conceive aught beyond the relative and finite, inspired with a belief in...beyond the sphere of all comprehensible reality." Now, here it Is admitted that we attain to " a revelation " which " inspires us with a belief in the...
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Discussions on Philosophy and Literature, Education and University Reform ...

Sir William Hamilton - 1852 - 848 pages
...knowledge as necessarily co-extensive with the horizon of our faith. And by a wonderful revelation, we arc thus, in the very consciousness of our inability to...beyond the sphere of all comprehensible reality.* 2. The second opinion, that of KANT, is fundamentally the same ;is the preceding. Metaphysic, strictly...
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Discussions on Philosophy and Literature, Education and University Reform ...

Sir William Hamilton - 1853 - 828 pages
...thought as they are in their own existence. This application is to be discounted, as here irrelevant.] either of subject or object, either of mind or matter,...beyond the sphere of all comprehensible reality.' 2. The second opinion, that of KANT, is fundamentally the same as the preceding. Metaphysic, strictly...
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Discussions on Philosophy and Literature, Education and University Reform ...

Sir William Hamilton - 1853 - 832 pages
...exclusively use it — the Absolute is diametrically opposed to, is contradictory of, the Infinite. either of subject or object, either of mind or matter,...unconditioned beyond the sphere of all comprehensible reality.1 2. The second opinion, that of KANT, is fundamentally the same as the preceding. Metaphysic,...
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New Monthly Magazine, and Universal Register, Volume 97

Thomas Campbell, Samuel Carter Hall, Edward Bulwer Lytton Baron Lytton, Theodore Edward Hook, Thomas Hood, William Harrison Ainsworth, William Ainsworth - 1853 - 536 pages
...very consciousness of our inability to conceive aught above the relative and finite, a justifiable belief in the existence of something unconditioned, beyond the sphere of all comprehensible reality — how, in short, he confronts M. Cousin's doctrine of the Absolute and the Infinite on one hand,...
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Eclectic Magazine, and Monthly Edition of the Living Age, Volume 29

John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell, Henry T. Steele - 1853 - 606 pages
...very consciousness of our inability to conceive aught above the relative and finite, a justifiable astalio, an overcharged invective, when under the impulse of an imaginary wrong, he makes him burst — how, in short, he confronts M. Cousin's doctrine of the Absolute and the Infinite on the one hand,...
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The New Monthly Magazine, Volume 97

1853 - 572 pages
...very consciousness of our inability to conceive aught above the relative and finite, a justifiable belief in the existence of something unconditioned, beyond the sphere of all comprehensible reality — how, in short, he confronts M. Cousin's doctrine of the Absolute and the Infinite on one hand,...
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Gomer: Or, A Brief Analysis of the Language and Knowledge of the ..., Volume 1

John Williams - 1854 - 234 pages
...principle of contradiction and excluded middle, one must be admitted as necessary. On this opinion, reason is shown to be weak, but not deceitful. The...beyond the sphere of all comprehensible reality." 38 •*•The two concomitants of thought which alone are necessary for the present investigation,...
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