Spirit is a unity of the manifold in which the externality of the manifold has utterly ceased. The universal here is immanent in the parts, and its system does not lie somewhere outside and in the relations between them. It is above the relational form... Appearance and Reality: A Metaphysical Essay - Page 499by Francis Herbert Bradley - 1897 - 628 pagesFull view - About this book
| William Tudor Jones - 1917 - 280 pages
...is realised and transmuted by spirit. But each of these extremes, we must add, has no existence in fact. The sphere of dead mechanism is set apart by...consists. And, on the other hand, pure spirit is not realised except in the Absolute. It can never appear as such and with its full character in the scale... | |
| Aristotelian Society (Great Britain) - 1918 - 236 pages
...has absorbed it in a higher unity, a whole in which there is no division between elements and laws. The sphere of dead mechanism is set apart by an act...consists. And, on the other hand, pure spirit is not realised except in the Absolute." Now, what does this mean if it be not the restoration of even relational... | |
| Herbert Wildon Carr - 1918 - 202 pages
...has absorbed it in a higher unity, a whole in which there is no division between elements and laws. The sphere of dead mechanism is set apart by an act...consists. And, on the other hand, pure spirit is not realised except in the Absolute." Now, what does this mean if it be not the restoration of even relational... | |
| Richard Burdon Haldane Haldane (Viscount) - 1921 - 490 pages
...has realised it in a higher unity, a whole in which there is no division between elements and laws. The sphere of dead mechanism is set apart by an act...abstraction, and in that abstraction alone it essentially exists. And, on the other hand, pure spirit is not realised except in the Absolute." Five centuries... | |
| Benjamin Rand - 1924 - 924 pages
...spirit, we may say, is directly opposite to mechanism. Spirit is a unity of the manifold in which 799 the externality of the manifold has utterly ceased....existence. Perfection and individuality belong only tc that Whole in which all degrees alike are at once present and absorbed. This one Reality of existence... | |
| Benjamin Rand - 1924 - 920 pages
...and to attempt to arrange these on what seems a true principle of worth, can be hardly irrational. Such a philosophy of Nature, if at least it were true...existence. Perfection and individuality belong only tc that Whole in which all degrees alike are at once present and absorbed. This one Reality of existence... | |
| Benjamin Rand - 1924 - 916 pages
...be set out as a progress. It would show a development of principle though not a succession in tune. Every sphere of experience would be measured by the...existence. Perfection and individuality belong only tc that Whole in which all degrees alike are at once present and absorbed. This one Reality of existence... | |
| Edgell Rickword - 1927 - 370 pages
...We require a capacity for becoming better, and, I suppose too, for becoming worse." Or again : — "The sphere of dead mechanism is set apart by an act...Absolute. It can never appear as such, and with its full characteristics, in the scale of existence. Perfection and individuality belong only to that Whole... | |
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