 | Henry Allon - 1863 - 622 pages
...direction we turn we are confronted by insoluble enigmas. Thus does the inquirer learn at once — ' The greatness and the littleness of the human intellect...impotence in dealing with all that transcends experience. He realizes with a special vividness the utter ineomprehensibleness of the simplest fact, considered... | |
 | Herbert Spencer - 1868 - 470 pages
...more clearly perceives it to be the unknowable. He learns at once the greatness and the littleness of human intellect — its power in dealing with all...impotence in dealing with all that transcends experience. He feels, with a vividness which no others can, the utter incomprehensibleness of the simplest fact,... | |
 | Francis Fisher Browne - 1869 - 926 pages
...investigations eventually bring him face to fece with the UNKNOWABLE. He learns at once the greatness and littleness of the human intellect; its power in dealing...impotence in dealing with all that transcends experience. He feels with a vividness which no other can the utter incompreheusihleness of a single fact, considered... | |
 | Francis Fisher Broune - 1869 - 420 pages
...investigations eventually bring him face to face with the UNKNOWABLE. He learns at once the greatness and littleness of the human intellect; its power in dealing...impotence in dealing with all that transcends experience. He feels with a vividness which no other can the utter incomprehensibleness of a single fact, considered... | |
 | Herbert Spencer - 1870 - 600 pages
...insoluble enigma. lie learns at once the greatness and the littleness of the human intellect—its power in dealing with all that comes within the range...impotence in dealing with all that transcends experience. He realizes with a special vividness the utter incomprehensibleness of the simplest fact, considered... | |
 | Herbert Spencer - 1870 - 588 pages
...insoluble enigma ; and he ever more clearly perceives it to be an insoluble enigma. He learns at once the greatness and the littleness of the human intellect — its power in dealing_ with. allJhaLaan.es within. Jiie_jrange_ of .experience ; its impotence in dealing with all... | |
 | Octavius Brooks Frothingham - 1873 - 348 pages
...and we ever more clearly perceive it to be an insoluble enigma. We learn at once the greatness and littleness of the human intellect, — its power in...impotence in dealing with all that transcends experience. We realize with a special vividness the utter incomprehensibleness of the simplest fact considered... | |
 | Théodule Ribot - 1873 - 382 pages
...more clearly perceives it to be the unknowable. He learns at once the greatness and the littleness of human intellect — its power in dealing with all...impotence in dealing with all that transcends experience. He feels, with a vividness which no others can, the utter incomprehensibleness of the simplest fact,... | |
 | Octavius Brooks Frothingham - 1873 - 348 pages
...be an insoluble enigma. We learn at once the greatness and littleness of the human intellect,—its power in dealing with all that comes within the range...impotence in dealing with all that transcends experience. We realize with a special vividness the utter incomprehensibleness of the simplest fact considered... | |
 | Herbert Spencer - 1877 - 608 pages
...an insoluble enigma. He learns at once the greatness and the littleness of the human intellect—its power in dealing with all that comes within the range...impotence in dealing with all that transcends experience. He realizes with a special vividness the utter incomprehensibleness of the simplest fact, considered... | |
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... unknowable. He learns at once the greatness and the littleness of human intellect — its power in dealing with all that comes within the range of experience ; its impotence in dealing with all that transcends experience. 
