 | 1857 - 602 pages
...their ultimate genesis and nature. He sees that the materialist and spiritualist controversy is a mere war of words ; the disputants being equally absurd...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... | |
 | John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell - 1857 - 624 pages
...their ultimate genesis and nature. He sees that the materialist and spiritualist controversy is a mere war of words ; the disputants being equally absurd...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... | |
 | 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... | |
 | 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.... | |
 | 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 - 652 pages
...Spiritualist controversy is a mere war of words, in which the disputants are equally absurd — each thinking he understands that which it is impossible for any man to understand — he will perceive how utterly groiindless is the fear referred to. Being fully convinced that whatever... | |
 | Herbert Spencer - 1864 - 538 pages
...Spiritualist controversy is a mere war of words, in which the disputants are equally absurd — each thinking he understands that which it is impossible for any man to understand — he will perceive how utterly groundless is the fear referred to. Being fully convinced that whatever... | |
 | 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...more clearly perceives it to be the unknowable He feels, with a vividness which no others can, the utter incomprehensibleness of the simplest fact, considered... | |
 | 1865 - 736 pages
...Mosaic Cosmogony, in "Good Words," Oct. 1861. 3 Murphy on Genesis, p. 43. the more he is baffled ID all directions his investigations Eventually bring...more clearly perceives it to be the unknowable He feels, with a vividness which no others can, the utter incomprehensibleness of the simplest fact, considered... | |
 | 1867 - 426 pages
...Spiritualist controversy is a mere war of words, in which the disputants are equally absurd, each thinking he understands that which it is impossible for any man to understand." Again, the reviewer says, — " Recognizing the phenomenal diversity of matter and mind, and at the... | |
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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. 
