| Herbert Spencer - 1910 - 280 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, more than any other, truly knows that in its ultimate nature nothing can be known. CHAPTER IV THE... | |
| Herbert Spencer - 1910 - 496 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,... | |
| James Seth - 1912 - 404 pages
...that ' Force, Space, and Time pass all understanding.' Thus the scientific thinker ' 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... | |
| 1913 - 136 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... | |
| 1919 - 202 pages
...perceives it to be an insoluble enigma. He learns at once the greatuess and the littleness of the hum*n intellect— its power in dealing with all that comes...impotence in dealing with all that transcends experience. He realizes with a special vividuess the ntter incomprehenlibleness ot the simplest fact, considered... | |
| George de Thierry, Conrad Matschoss - 1926 - 474 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 all that transceTftds experience. He realizes with a special vividness the utter incomprehensibleness of the... | |
| John Herman Randall Jr. - 1977 - 372 pages
...thus discovers to be alike inscrutable in their illuni. ile genesis and nature. . . .He learns at once the greatness and the littleness of the human intellect...impotence in dealing with all that transcends experience. . . .He alone knows that under all things there lies an impenetrable mystery. (59, 60) In 1862 there... | |
| Will Durant - 1965 - 736 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, more than any other, truly knows that in its ultimate nature nothing can be known."27 The only... | |
| Rāmacandra Miśra - 1998 - 474 pages
...inscrutable."1 The scientific thinker, according to him, "learns at THE ABSOLUTE AS EXISTENCE 137 jnce 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... | |
| Rosemary J. Mundhenk, LuAnn McCracken Fletcher - 1999 - 502 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,... | |
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