 | New Church gen. confer - 616 pages
...impossibility of conceiving this is so manifest, that no one dares to assert it. For if space were created, it must have been previously non-existent, The non-existence of space cannot, however, by any mental effort be imagined. It is one of the most familiar truths that the idea of space as surrounding... | |
 | Herbert Spencer - 1862 - 528 pages
...the impossibility of conceiving this is so manifest, that no one dares to assert it. For if space was created, it must have been previously non-existent. The non-existence of space cannot, however, by any mental effort be imagined. It is one of the most familiar truths that the idea of space as surrounding... | |
 | Herbert Spencer - 1864 - 650 pages
...everywhere present, but we are unable to conceive its absense cither in the past or the future. And if the non-existence of space is absolutely inconceivable,...necessarily, its creation is absolutely inconceivable. Lastly, even supposing that the genesis of the Universe could really be represented in thought as the... | |
 | Herbert Spencer - 1864 - 538 pages
...tiie impossibility of conceiving this is so manifest, that no one dares to assert it. For if space was created, it must have been previously non-existent. The non-existence of space cannot, however, by any mental effort be imagined. It is one of the most familiar truths that the idea of space as surrounding... | |
 | Sir Norman Lockyer - 1888 - 668 pages
...the impossibility of conceiving this is so manifest, that no one dares to assert it. For if space was created it must have been previously non-existent. The non-existence of space cannot, however, by any mental effort be imagined. . . . We are unable to conceive its absence either in the past or... | |
 | Herbert Spencer - 1870 - 600 pages
...the impossibility of conceiving this is so manifest, that no one dares to assert it. For if space was created, it must have been previously non-existent. The non-existence of space cannot, however, by any mental effort be imagined. It is one of the most familiar truths that the idea of space as surrounding... | |
 | Constance E. Plumptre - 1879 - 366 pages
...the impossibility of conceiving this is so manifest, that no one dares to assert it. For if space was created, it must have been previously nonexistent. The non-existence of space cannot, however, by any mental effort be imagined. It is one of the most familiar truths, that the idea of space as... | |
 | Constance E. Plumptre - 1879 - 364 pages
...the impossibility of conceiving this is so manifest, that no one dares to assert it. For if space was created, it must have been previously nonexistent. The non-existence of space cannot, however, by any mental effort be imagined. It is one of the most familiar truths, that the idea of space as... | |
 | 1882 - 108 pages
...everywhere present, but we are unable to conceive its absence either in the past or the future. And if the non-existence of space is absolutely inconceivable,...necessarily, its creation is absolutely inconceivable." HERBERT SPENCER. r" It is impossible to imagine that there should be no space, though one might very... | |
 | William M. Lacy - 1883 - 254 pages
...for the production of matter out of nothing is not realizable in thought. Moreover, " if space was created, it must have been previously non-existent. The nonexistence of space cannot, however, by any mental effort be imagined." "Lastly, even supposing that the genesis of the Universe could really... | |
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... that matter was made. But the impossibility of conceiving this is so manifest, that no one dares to assert it. For if space was created, it must have been previously non-existent. The non-existence of space cannot, however, by any mental effort be... 
