 | Jan Helenus Ferguson - 1884 - 538 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...impotence in dealing with all that transcends experience. He realizes with a special vividness the utter incomprehensiblencss of the simplest fact, considered... | |
 | Jan Helenus Ferguson - 1884 - 558 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... | |
 | Nicholas Patrick Wiseman - 1888 - 742 pages
...and therefore cannot yield the Absolute. Mr. Spencer, as a scientific man " learns at once (p. 67) the greatness and the littleness of the human intellect...impotence in dealing with all that transcends experience/' He knows, likewise, that there can be no experience except of the relative, for, as he again observes... | |
 | Herbert Spencer - 1891 - 494 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 more vividly than any others can feel, the utter incomprehensibleness of th& simplest fact,... | |
 | Herbert Spencer - 1896 - 652 pages
...insoluble enigma ; and he ever more clearly perceives it to be an insoluble enigma. He learns at once tho greatness and the littleness of the human intellect...impotence in dealing with all that transcends experience. He realizes with a special vividness the utter incomprehensibleness of the simplest fact, considered... | |
 | Hector Macpherson - 1900 - 264 pages
...eventually bring him face to face with the unknowable. He learns at once the greatness and the littleness of human intellect, its power in dealing with all that...impotence in dealing with all that transcends experience. He feels, with a vividness which no others can, the utter incomprehensibleness of the simplest fact... | |
 | Dennis Hird - 1903 - 256 pages
...directions his investigations eventually bring him face to face with an insoluble enigma ; he learns at once the greatness and the littleness of the human intellect...impotence in dealing with all that transcends experience. He realises with a special vividness the utter incomprehensibleness of the simplest fact considered... | |
 | Herbert Spencer - 1907 - 142 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 more vividly than any others can feel, the utter incomprehensibleness of the simplest fact,... | |
 | Oliver Joseph Thatcher - 1907 - 494 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 more vividly than any others can feel, the incomprehensibleness of the simplest fact, considered... | |
 | Oliver Joseph Thatcher - 1907 - 482 pages
...it to be the unknowable. He learns at once the greatness and the littleness of human intellect—its power in dealing with all that comes within the range...impotence in dealing with all that transcends experience. He feels more vividly than any others can feel, the 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. 
