 | Edward Royall Tyler, William Lathrop Kingsley, George Park Fisher, Timothy Dwight - 1863 - 878 pages
...cultivated Christian theology, in such assertions as that "a God understood would be no God at all," and " to think that God is, as we can think Him to be, is blasphemy." Nor is this all ; but the most unsparing criticism leaves unquestionable this most abstract belief... | |
 | Herbert Spencer - 1864 - 538 pages
...developments of theology, ending in such assertions as that " a God understood would be no God at all," and " to think that God is, as we can think him to be, is blasphemy," exhibit this recognition still more distinctly ; and it pervades all the cultivated theology of the... | |
 | David Masson - 1865 - 432 pages
...element the beating of its wings in which is the very cause of its soaring at all ; that it is blasphemy to think that God is as we can think Him to be — in these and a thousand other ways the thing has been stated. The Socratic definition of the highest... | |
 | M. P. W. Bolton - 1866 - 284 pages
...Conditioned, and that the Unconditioned is wholly incogitable, he deduces from this, by way of inference : " True, therefore, are the declarations of a pious philosophy,...that God is as we can think him to be is blasphemy.' " This indicates the view that God, as he really exists, is unconditioned, and very different from... | |
 | Sir William Hamilton - 1866 - 548 pages
...that of KANT, is fundamentally the same as the preceding. Metaphysie, strictly so denominated, the * [True, therefore, are the declarations of a pious...To think that God is, as we can think him to be, is blasphemy.'—The Divinity, in a certain sense, is revcaled ; in a certain sense is concealed : He... | |
 | Sir William Hamilton - 1866 - 900 pages
...possibility. That Kant accomplished much, it would be prejudice to deny ; nor is his service to philo. therefore, are the declarations of a pious philosophy...God understood would be no God at all : " — " To fhinV flint nn(j is. as we can think him to .he. J8 blasphemy." — The Divinity, in a certain sense,... | |
 | M. P. W. Bolton - 1866 - 284 pages
...Conditioned, and that the Unconditioned is wholly incogitable, he deduces from this, by way of inference : " True, therefore, are the declarations of a pious philosophy, ' A God understood would be 110 God at all;' 'To think that God is as we can think him to be is blasphemy.' " This indicates the... | |
 | David Masson - 1866 - 334 pages
...element the beating of its wings in which is the very cause of its soaring at all ; that it is blasphemy to think that God is as we can think Him to be — in these and a thousand other ways the thing has been stated. The Socratic definition of the highest... | |
 | John Stuart Mill - 1867 - 664 pages
...of fact, of which every one is a judge who will take the trouble to read Sir W. Hamilton's 'Essay. I maintain that there is not a shadow of ground for...at all.' ' To think that God is, as "we can think hi™ to be, is blasphemy.' The Divinity, in a certain I proceed to state, chiefly in the words of... | |
 | Pramadadasa Mittra - 1867 - 44 pages
...of the greatest modern geniuses in Metaphysics, who, let me also add, is an orthodox Christian : " True therefore are the declarations of a pious philosophy...that God is as we can think him to be is blasphemy.' In this consummation nature and revelation, paganism and Christianity are at one : and from either... | |
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To think that God is, as we can think him to be, is blasphemy. 
