 We are thus taught the salutary lesson, that the capacity of thought is not to be constituted into the measure of existence; and are warned from recognizing the domain of our knowledge as necessarily coextensive with the horizon of our faith. And by a...  First Principles - Page 92by Herbert Spencer - 1862 - 503 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Victor Cousin - 1834 - 398 pages
...recognizing the domain of our knowledge as necessarily co-extensive with the horizon of our faith. And by a 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 the existence of something unconditioned... | |
 | Maurice Cross - 1835 - 920 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...of something unconditioned beyond the sphere of all comprehensive reality. 2. The second opinion, that of Kant, is fundamentally the same as the preceding.... | |
 | Maurice Cross - 1835 - 520 pages
...recognising the domain of our knowledge as necessarily co-extensive with the horizon of our faith. And by a 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 the existence of something unconditioned... | |
 | 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... | |
 | Edward Royall Tyler, William Lathrop Kingsley, George Park Fisher, Timothy Dwight - 1858 - 956 pages
...takes cognizance of no other quantities ; hence it is impossible to carry the dis tinction further. our inability to conceive aught above the relative...of something unconditioned beyond the sphere of all reprehensible reality." Dr. Hickok has. as rigidly as Hamilton, demonstrated the impossibility of reaching... | |
 | 1858 - 906 pages
...recognizing the domain of our knowledge as necessarily co-extensive with the horizon of our faith. And by a wonderful revelation, we are thus, in the very...of something unconditioned beyond the sphere of all comprehensive reality." (Philosophy of the Conditioned, Wight's Edition of the Philosophy of Hamilton,... | |
 | 1859 - 626 pages
...,arid in the philosophy of Hamilton so far as it has been given to the public. Sir W. Hamilton says: "By a wonderful revelation we are thus, in the very...inspired with a belief in the existence of something unconditional, boy ond the sphere of all comprehensive reality." (Discuss, p. 15.) He speaks of a horizon... | |
 | John Harris - 1849 - 526 pages
...recognizing the domain of our knowledge as necessarily coextensive with the horizon of our faith. And, by a 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 the existence of something unconditioned... | |
 | 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... | |
 | Sir William Hamilton - 1853 - 828 pages
...recognizing the domain of our knowledge as necessarily co-extensive with the horizon of our faith. And by a wonderful revelation, we are thus, in the very...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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