 | Herbert Spencer - 1870 - 600 pages
...remains behind. Alike in the external and the internal worlds, the man of science sees himself in the midst of perpetual changes of which he can discover...he allows himself to entertain the hypothesis that the Universe once existed in a diffused form, he finds it utterly impossible to conceive how this came... | |
 | Théodule Ribot - 1874 - 352 pages
...universe is an insoluble problem. Alike in the external and the internal worlds, he sees himself in the midst of perpetual changes, of which he can discover...diffused form, he finds it utterly impossible to conceive hqw this came to be so, and equally, if he speculates on the future, he can assign no limit to the... | |
 | Thomas Rawson Birks - 1876 - 346 pages
...clearness the inexplicableness of that which remains behind. The man of science sees himself in the midst of perpetual changes, of which he can discover neither the beginning nor the end.... If he looks inward, both ends of the line of consciousness are beyond his grasp, nay, even beyond his... | |
 | Thomas Robinson - 1876 - 362 pages
...Sept., 1867. "Alike in the external 'and the internal worlds, the man of science sees himself in 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... | |
 | Philosophical Society of Washington (Washington, D.C.) - 1881 - 902 pages
...comprehended. - - - Alike in the external and the internal worlds, the man of science sees himself in 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... | |
 | S. Sandaram Iyer - 1883 - 120 pages
...him, becomes by each new enquiry more profoundly convinced that the Universe is an insoluble problem. If, tracing back the evolution of things, he allows...he finds it utterly impossible to conceive how this carne to be so Though he may succeed in resolving all properties of objects into manifestations of... | |
 | Jan Helenus Ferguson - 1884 - 538 pages
...remains behind. Alike in the external and the internal worlds, the man of science sees himself in the midst of perpetual changes of which he can discover...he allows himself to entertain the hypothesis that the Universe once existed in a diffused form, he finds it utterly impossible to conceive how this came... | |
 | George Herbert Curteis - 1885 - 216 pages
...the internal worlds, 1 Thomson's Bhagavat-gita, p. 13. LECT. the man of science finds himself in the midst of perpetual changes, of which he can discover neither the beginning nor the end."1 Everywhere, then, we are met by the imperative necessity of Faith — and most of all when we... | |
 | George Herbert Curteis - 1885 - 216 pages
...the internal worlds, 1 Thomson's Bluigavat-gita, p. 13. LECT. the man of science finds himself in the midst of perpetual changes, of which he can discover neither the beginning nor the end."1 Everywhere, then, we are met by the imperative necessity of Faith — and most of all when we... | |
 | Herbert Spencer - 1886 - 662 pages
...remains behind. Alike in the external and the internal worlds, the man of science sees himself in the midst of perpetual changes of which he can discover...evolution of things, he allows himself to entertain tho hypothesis that the Universe once existed in a diffused form, he finds it utterly impossible to... | |
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Alike in the external and the internal worlds, he sees himself in the midst of perpetual changes, of which he can discover neither the beginning nor the end. If, tracing back the evolution of things, he allows himself to entertain the hypothesis that... 
