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" We are thus taught the salutary lesson, that the capacity of thought is not to be constituted into the measure of existence ; and are warned from recognising the domain of our knowledge as necessarily co-extensive with the horizon of our faith. "
First Principles of a New System of Philosophy - Page 76
by Herbert Spencer - 1865 - 508 pages
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Evangelical Magazine and Missionary Chronicle, Volume 32

1854 - 834 pages
...imperfect, and, therefore, we most heartily and fully concur in the principles laid down by Sir William, that ' the capacity of thought is not to be constituted into the measure of existente.' But, this principle we hold, rather as the result of our own doctrine, than of the doctrine...
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Selections from the Edinburgh Review ...

Maurice Cross - 1835 - 520 pages
...of their mutual contradiction, it is compelled to recognise as true. We are thus taught the salutary lesson, that the capacity of thought is not to be...into the measure of existence; and are warned from recognising the domain of our knowledge as necessarily co-extensive with the horizon of our faith....
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The Methodist Quarterly Review, Volume 43

1861 - 716 pages
...ground of their mutual repugnance, it is compelled to recognize as true. We are thus taught the salutary lesson that the capacity of thought is not to be constituted...faith. And by a wonderful revelation we are thus, in our very consciousness of our inability to conceive aught above the relative and finite, inspired with...
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Elements of Psychology: Included in a Critical Examination of Locke's Essay ...

Victor Cousin - 1842 - 488 pages
...spirit of his American assailant — I believe in that philosophy by which " we are taught the salutary lesson that the capacity of thought is not to be constituted...necessarily coextensive with the horizon of our faith."* I published this examination of Locke because, independently of any systematic peculiarities of the...
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Discussions on Philosophy and Literature, Education and University Reform ...

Sir William Hamilton - 1852 - 848 pages
...ground of their mutual repugnance, it is compelled to recognise as true. We are thus taught the salutary lesson, that the capacity of thought is not to be...into the measure of existence ; and are warned from recognising the domain of our knowledge as necessarily co-extensive with the horizon of our faith....
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The New quarterly review, and digest of current literature, Volume 7

1858 - 422 pages
...inconceivable;" and the conclusion at which he arrives is again, in the words of the same philosopher, " that the capacity of thought is not to be constituted into the measure of existence ;" and that we ought not to recognize " the domain of onr knowledge as necessarily coextensive with the horizon...
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Eclectic Magazine, and Monthly Edition of the Living Age, Volume 29

John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell, Henry T. Steele - 1853 - 606 pages
...being deceitful, and that its testimony is valid so far as it goes — how he enforces the salutary ! Destructive, damnable, deceitful woman." And so he goes on, up to the weakness of Eve in nor the domain of our knowledge to be recognized as necessarily co-extensive with the horizon of our...
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The New Monthly Magazine, Volume 97

1853 - 570 pages
...being deceitful, and that its testimony is valid so far as it goes— how he enforces the salutary lesson that the capacity of thought is not to be constituted into the measure of existence, nor the domain of our knowledge to be recognised as necessarily co-extensive with the horizon of our...
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The Philosophy of the Infinite: With Special Reference to the Theories of ...

Henry Calderwood - 1854 - 386 pages
...knowledge is only of the limited, how is it that we at once recognise the validity of the principle, that " the capacity of thought is not to be constituted into the measure of existence \" On our doctrine, which admits a partial recognition of the Infinite, the fact is at once explained....
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The London Quarterly Review VOL.IV April and July,1855

The London Quarterly Review VOL.IV April and July,1855 - 1855 - 590 pages
...of their mutual repugnance, it i? compelled to recognise as true. \Ve are thus taught the salutary lesson, that the capacity of thought is not to be...into the measure of existence ; and are warned from recognising the domain of our knowledge, as necessarily co-extensive with the horizon of our faith."...
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