| Oliver J. Thatcher - 2004 - 456 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... | |
| Herbert Spencer - 2006 - 236 pages
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| James Seth - 2006 - 384 pages
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| Herbert Spencer - 2006 - 456 pages
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| 1906 - 1172 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." Spencer then... | |
| 1890 - 1252 pages
...hidden potentialities, is it not, in itself, simply marvelous? The scientist soon learns the limitations of the human intellect, — "its power in dealing...impotence in dealing with all that transcends experience." When Science brings confusion and doubt, the eye of the beholder is distorted or dim ; he sees as through... | |
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