 | Charles Dudley Warner - 1896 - 468 pages
...worth the attention of men who have work to do in the world. And he thus ends one of his essays: — "If we take in hand any volume of divinity, or school...it can contain nothing but sophistry and illusion." Permit me to enforce this most wise advice. Why trouble ourselves about matters of which, however important... | |
 | Josiah Royce - 1896 - 554 pages
...for instance, let us ask, Docs it contain any abstract reasoning concerning quantity or number ? JVo. Does it contain any experimental reasoning concerning...it can contain nothing but sophistry and illusion." TL Hume represents thus, indeed, the extreme of purely philosophical skepticism in the eighteenth century.... | |
 | Thomas Henry Huxley - 1896 - 464 pages
...instance, let us ask, Docs it contain any abs'. nut reasoning concerning quantity or number ? No. Docs it contain any experimental reasoning concerning matter...it can contain nothing but sophistry and illusion. " 1 Permit me to enforce this most wise advice. Why trouble ourselves about matters of which, however... | |
 | Charles Dudley Warner - 1897 - 468 pages
...worth the attention of men who have work to do in the world. And he thus ends one of his essays: — <( If we take in hand any volume of divinity, or school...any abstract reasoning concerning quantity or number 1 No. Does it contain any experimental reasoning concerning matter of fact and existence? No. Commit... | |
 | Thomas Henry Huxley - 1898 - 452 pages
...worth the attention of men who have work to do in the world. And he thus ends one of his essays : — " If we take in hand any volume of Divinity, or school...contain any experimental reasoning concerning matter of faet and existence ? No. Commit it then to the names ; for it can contain nothing but sophistry and... | |
 | James Ward - 1899 - 332 pages
...edition, vol. i, pp. 159 fl. VOl. I — 0 1 Inquiry concerning the Human Understanding that Hume wrote : " If we take in hand any volume of divinity, or school...it can contain nothing but sophistry and illusion." How this advice is to dispel perplexity at " the advancing tide of matter and the tightening grasp... | |
 | Charles Wesley Rishell - 1899 - 654 pages
...conclusion of the whole matter, he says that if we go into a library and take up any volume, •we should ask, " Does it contain any abstract reasoning concerning...flames ; for it can contain nothing but sophistry and illusion."1 C. By Our Capacities. " They (the philosophically disposed) will never be tempted," says... | |
 | Richard Garnett - 1899 - 616 pages
...worth the attention of men who have work to do in the world. And he thus ends one of his essays : — If we take in hand any volume of Divinity, or school...any abstract reasoning concerning quantity or number t No. Does it contain any experimental reasoning concerning matter of fact and existence? !N"o. Commit... | |
 | Ludwig Noiré - 1900 - 374 pages
...When we run over libraries, persuaded of these principles, what havoc must we make 1 If we take in our hand any volume, of divinity or school metaphysics,...flames ; for it can contain nothing but sophistry and illusion1.' The conclusion leaves nothing to be desired in point of clearness. 1. On the one hand we... | |
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If we take in our hand any volume; of divinity or school metaphysics, for instance; let us ask, Does it contain any abstract reasoning concerning quantity or number'} No. Does it contain any experimental reasoning concerning matter of fact and existence?... 
