 ... unknowable. He learns at once the greatness and the littleness of human intellect — its power in dealing with all that comes within the range of experience ; its impotence in dealing with all that transcends experience. He...  Spencer and Spencerism - Page 122by Hector Macpherson - 1900 - 241 pagesFull view - About this book
 | 1857 - 602 pages
...absurd — each believing he understands that which it is impossible for any human being to understand. In all directions his investigations eventually bring him face to face with the unknowable; and he ever more clearly perceives it to be the unknowable. He learns at once the greatness and the... | |
 | John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell - 1857 - 624 pages
...absurd — each believing he understands that which it is impossible for any human being to understand. In all directions his investigations eventually bring him face to face with the unknowable ; and he ever more clearly perceives it to be the unknowable. He learns at once the greatness and the... | |
 | Herbert Spencer - 1858 - 460 pages
...equally absurd — each believing he understands that which it is impossible for any man to understand. In all directions his investigations eventually bring him face to face with the unknowable; and he ever more clearly perceives it to be the unknowable. He learns at once the greatness and the... | |
 | Herbert Spencer - 1858 - 466 pages
...equally absurd—each believing he understands that which it is impossible for any man to understand. In all directions his investigations eventually bring him face to face with the unknowable; and he ever more clearly perceives it to be the unknowable. He learns at once the greatness and the... | |
 | Smithsonian Institution - 1883 - 818 pages
...the midst of perpetual changes — of which he can discover neither the beginning nor the end. - - - In all directions his investigations eventually bring him face to face with an insoluble enigma ; and he ever more clearly perceives it to be an insoluble enigma." HERBERT SPENCER.... | |
 | Herbert Spencer - 1862 - 528 pages
...Objective and subjective things he thus ascertains to be alike inscrutable in their substance and genesis. In all directions his investigations - eventually bring him face to face with an insoluble enigma ; and he ever more clearly perceives it to be an insoluble enigma. He learns at... | |
 | Edward Royall Tyler, William Lathrop Kingsley, George Park Fisher, Timothy Dwight - 1863 - 878 pages
...himself in the midst of perpetual changes, of which lie cnn discover neither the beginning nor the end. In all directions his investigations eventually bring him face to face with an insoluble enigma, and ho ever more clearly perceives it to be an insoluble enigma. lie learns at... | |
 | Herbert Spencer - 1864 - 510 pages
...eventually bring him face to face with the unknowable ; and he ever more clearly perceives it to be the unknowable. He learns at once the greatness and...the range of experience ; its impotence in dealing \v:th all that transcends experience. He feels, with a vrv iness which no others can, the utter incomprehensiblenetis... | |
 | Herbert Spencer - 1864 - 538 pages
...Objective and subjective things he thus ascertains to be alike inscrutable in their substance and genesis. In all directions his investigations eventually bring him face to face with an insoluble enigma ; and he ever more clearly perceives it to be an insoluble enigma. He learns at... | |
 | 1865 - 734 pages
...the Mosaic Cosmogony, in " Good Words," Oct. 1861. 3 Murphy on Genesis, p. 43. the more he is baffled In all directions his investigations eventually bring him face to face with the unknowable ; and he ever more clearly perceives it to be the unknowable He feels, with a vividness which no others... | |
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