 By continually seeking to know and being continually thrown back with a deepened conviction of the impossibility of knowing, we may keep alive the consciousness that it is alike our highest wisdom and our highest duty to regard that through which all...  First Principles - Page 113by Herbert Spencer - 1862 - 503 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Andrew Seth Pringle-Pattison - 1917 - 450 pages
...assigning any attributes whatever ' to the object of our worship. We shall recognize it, in fine, as ' alike our highest wisdom and our highest duty to regard...that through which all things exist as the Unknowable '.1 Volumes, doubtless, might be written, as Spencer truly remarked, on the impiety of the pious ;... | |
 | Andrew Seth Pringle-Pattison - 1917 - 452 pages
...UNFATHOMABLE ? 165 attributes whatever ' to the object of our worship. We shall recognize it, in fine, as ' alike our highest wisdom and our highest duty to regard...that through which all things exist as the Unknowable '.a Volumes, doubtless, might be written, as Spencer truly remarked, on the impiety of the pious ;... | |
 | 1919 - 202 pages
...tinnaNy thrown back with a deepened conthe Unconditioned, viction of the impossibility of knowing, page ' we may keep alive the consciousness that it is alike...through which all things exist as the Unknowable." (14) " In brief, our postulates are : — an Unknowable Power ; the existence of Knowable likePostulates,... | |
 | 1919 - 926 pages
...is the essential meaning of the Incarnation. Compare with it this statement of a modern thinker : " It is alike our highest wisdom and our highest duty...through which all things exist as The Unknowable." This, according to Spencer, is the fundamental truth in religion and the basis on which alone religion... | |
 | Benjamin Rand - 1924 - 924 pages
...any other course, the greatness of that which we vainly strive to grasp. By continually seeking 7o8 to know and being continually thrown back with a deepened...through which all things exist as The Unknowable. PART II. — THE KNOWABLE CHAPTER I. PHILOSOPHY DEFINED § 35. After concluding that we cannot know... | |
 | Elisha M. Friedman - 1924 - 312 pages
...shape to that indefinite sense of an Ultimate Existence, which forms the basis of our intelligence. By continually seeking to know and being continually...knowing, we may keep alive the consciousness that is alike our highest wisdom and our highest duty to regard that through which all things exist as the... | |
 | Harry Victor Emmanuel Palmblad - 1927 - 230 pages
...current are indispensable as transitional modes of thought .... By continually seeking to know and by being continually thrown back with a deepened conviction...highest wisdom and our highest duty to regard that thru which all things exist as the Unknowable" (ibid., 112-113). bad, but indifferent.88 The idea of... | |
 | Harry Victor Emmanuel Palmblad - 1927 - 220 pages
...current are indispensable as transitional modes of thought. .... By continually seeking to know and by being continually thrown back with a deepened conviction...highest wisdom and our highest duty to regard that thru which all things exist as the Unknowable" (ibid., 112-113). bad, but indifferent. 38 The idea... | |
 | Harry Victor Emmanuel Palmblad - 1927 - 220 pages
...current are indispensable as transitional modes of thought . .... By continually seeking to know and by being continually thrown back with a deepened conviction...highest wisdom and our highest duty to regard that thru which all things exist as the Unknowable" (ibid., 112-113). bad, but indifferent.33 The idea of... | |
 | Harry Victor Emmanuel Palmblad - 1927 - 216 pages
...current are indispensable as transitional modes of thought .... By continually seeking to know and by being continually thrown back with a deepened conviction...highest wisdom and our highest duty to regard that thru which all things exist as the Unknowable" (ibid., 112-113). bad, but indifferent.88 The idea of... | |
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