We are obliged to regard every phenomenon as a manifestation of some Power by which we are acted upon; though Omnipresence is unthinkable, yet, as experience discloses no bounds to the diffusion of phenomena, we are unable to think of limits to the presence... The Reformed Church Review - Page 2881904Full view - About this book
| 1862 - 490 pages
...incomprehensible power. We give the statement of this very important result in the words of the author. " We are obliged to regard every phenomenon as a manifestation of some power, by which we are acted upon ; phenomena being, so far as we can ascertain, unlimited on their diffusion, we are obliged to regard... | |
| Edward Royall Tyler, William Lathrop Kingsley, George Park Fisher, Timothy Dwight - 1863 - 878 pages
...utterly inscrutable in nature, Religion finds an assertion essentially coinciding with her own. We arc obliged to regard every phenomenon as a manifestation of some Power by which we are acted upon ; phenomena being, so far as we can ascertain, unlimited in their diffusion, we arc obliged to regard... | |
| 1863 - 836 pages
...he is good enough in this instance to open to us the method by which he arrives at this conclusion. "We are obliged to regard every phenomenon as a manifestation of some Power by »lieh we are attod upon ; [and] phenomena being, so far as we can ascertain, ununitei in their diffusion,... | |
| Herbert Spencer - 1864 - 538 pages
...Reality utterly inscrutable in nature, Religion finds an assertion essentially coinciding with her own. We are obliged to regard every phenomenon as a manifestation of some Power by which we are acted upon; phenomena being, so far as we can ascertain, unlimited in their diffusion, we are obliged to regard... | |
| Jesse Henry Jones - 1865 - 236 pages
...the point where Religion and Science coalesce." The evils referred to may be developed as follows : " We are obliged to regard every phenomenon as a manifestation of some Power by which we are acted upon." This maybe expressed in another form thus: Every phenomenon is a manifestation of some Power by which... | |
| Jesse Henry Jones - 1865 - 252 pages
...the point where Religion and Science coalesce." The evils referred to may be developed as follows : ""We are obliged to regard every phenomenon as a manifestation of some Power by which we are acted upon." This may be expressed in another form thus : Every phenomenon is a manifestation of some Power by which... | |
| Herbert Spencer - 1872 - 602 pages
...Reality utterly^ inscrutable 7n nature, Religion Ends an assertion essentially coinciding with her own. We are obliged to regard every phenomenon as a manifestation...discloses no bounds to the diffusion of phenomena, we are unablo to think of limits to the presence of this Power ; while tho criticisms of Science teach us... | |
| 1889 - 902 pages
...we will therefore begin by referring to his way of stating the matter. " We are obliged," he says, " to regard every phenomenon as a manifestation of some power by which we are acted on ; though omnipresence is unthinkable, yet, as experience discloses no bounds to the diffusion of... | |
| 1872 - 642 pages
...the external world makes upon us without thinking of them as caused," and in another place adds, " we are obliged to regard every phenomenon as a manifestation of some Power by which we are acted upon," he becomes inconsistent with his most prominent assertion, in then concluding that effects proceed... | |
| Balfour Stewart, Peter Guthrie Tait - 1875 - 280 pages
...who is the Creator of all things. " We are obliged," says Herbert Spencer in his First Principles, " to regard every phenomenon as a manifestation of some...science teach us that this Power is Incomprehensible." We further look upon the laws of the universe as those laws according to which the beings in the universe... | |
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