 | 1905 - 1004 pages
...offering on the high altar of universal praise." * Yet that is not all. Mr. Spencer Informs us that this change of feeling towards religious creeds and...positive answers, then modes of consciousness standing in » Spencer, "Autobiography," ii. 487. ' Burke, 11. p. 370. place of positive answers, must ever remain.... | |
 | 1906 - 412 pages
...his unit of influence to all other units, leave the results to work themselves out. Largely, however, if not chiefly, this change of feeling towards religious...standing in place of positive answers, must ever remain. Thus religious creeds, which in one way or other occupy the sphere that rational interpretation seeks... | |
 | Herbert Spencer - 1904 - 644 pages
...his unit of influence to all other units, leave the results to work themselves out. Largely, however, if not chiefly, this change of feeling towards religious...standing in place of positive answers, must ever remain. We find, indeed, an unreflective mood general among both cultured and uncultured, characterized by... | |
 | 1904 - 886 pages
...his own system of ethics. He came to look more calmly on forms of religious belief, and was convinced that the sphere occupied by them can never become an unfilled sphere. The mystery of life appalls him. "No wonder," he exclaims, "men take refuge in authoritative dogma... | |
 | 1905 - 858 pages
...offering on the high altar of universal praise." • Yet that is not all. Mr. Spencer informs us that this change of feeling towards religious creeds and...positive answers, then modes of consciousness standing in 1 Spencer, "Autobiography," 11. «T. • Burke, II. p. 370. place of positive answers, must ever remain.... | |
 | Mary Emily Dowson - 1906 - 190 pages
...of religious belief, to which I had, in earlier days, a pronounced aversion. . . . Largely, however, if not chiefly, this change of feeling towards religious...surrounding things, and that, if not positive answers, then moods of consciousness standing in place of answers, must ever remain. . . . Religious creeds, which... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, John Murray, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero - 1906 - 822 pages
...Herbert Spencer, in his ' Autobiography,' assuming a more friendly attitude towards religious creeds, ' from a deepening conviction that the sphere occupied...standing in place of positive answers, must ever remain.' If such is the attitude of the opponents, the modern defenders of the faith need not incur the censure... | |
 | John Arthur Thomson - 1906 - 308 pages
...themselves out." Largely, however, Spencer's change of mood in regard to religious creeds and institutions resulted from " a deepening conviction that the sphere...; and that, if not positive answers, then modes of consciouss* ness standing in place of positive answers must ever "An unreflective mood, he said, is... | |
 | 1908 - 212 pages
...forms of religious, belief to which " he " had, in earlier days, a pronounced aversion." He felt " a deepening conviction that the sphere occupied by them can never become an unfilled sphere." And he concludes, after he has dwelt upon the " paralyzing thought" of Agnosticism, " no wonder that... | |
 | John Arthur Thomson - 1911 - 276 pages
...out. ' " Largely, however, Spencer's change of mood in regard to religious creeds and institutions resulted from "a deepening conviction that the sphere...standing in place of positive answers must ever remain." We venture to quote a somewhat lengthy passage because of its quite unique interest in regard to the... | |
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Largely, however, if not chiefly, this change of feeling towards religious creeds and their sustaining institutions, has resulted from a deepening conviction that the sphere occupied by them can never become an unfilled sphere, but that there must continue... 
