Amid all the mysteries by which we are surrounded, nothing is more certain than that we are ever in the presence of an Infinite and Eternal Energy from which all things proceed. Evolution - Page 6021881Full view - About this book
| Science - 1890 - 980 pages
...throws little or no light. So the scientific process makes it as absolutely certain as anything can be that " we are ever in the presence of an Infinite and Eternal Energy from which all things proceed." But it is far from making certain what is the nature of this Energy,... | |
| Education - 1895 - 794 pages
...the mild negative of the agnostic, " We do not know, we cannot tell." Even Herbert Spencer says, " We are ever in the presence of an infinite and eternal energy, from which all things proceed." The most thoughtful scientists recognize a power everywhere in creation,... | |
| Egbert Coffin Smyth - 1884 - 720 pages
...acting and reacting upon each other through untold ages, without purpose and without intelligence. I will not try to prove the position that this view...probably be labor thrown away to try to prove that it is not high. The task which I have set before myself is, I hope, a more practicable one : namely, to demonstrate... | |
| Lyman Abbott - Faith - 1886 - 206 pages
...compel him. For science has gone far toward demonstrating the truth of Herbert Spencer's declaration that we are " ever in the presence of an Infinite and Eternal Energy from whom all things proceed." It is as certain that we are always in the presence of this Infinite... | |
| J. C. Street - First philosophy - 1887 - 710 pages
...and women who have simply gone home to their Father's house. There remains the one absolute certainty that we are ever in the presence of an Infinite and eternal Energy, from which all things proceed, and to which in the fulness of time we must return again. How can a... | |
| J. C. Street - First philosophy - 1887 - 658 pages
...and women who have simply gone home to their Father's house. There remains the one absolute certainty that we are ever in the presence of an Infinite and eternal Energy, from which all things proceed, and to which in the fulness of time we must return again. How can a... | |
| 1920 - 254 pages
...had better stop talking about them; sometimes purely intellectual, like that of Herbert Spencer — we are ever in the presence of an Infinite and Eternal Energy, but it is unknown and unknowable ; sometimes pathetic, like that of Professor Clifford — the image... | |
| Robert Potter - Christian ethics - 1888 - 110 pages
...become the more mysterious more they are thought about, there will remain the one absolute certainty, that we are ever in the presence of an Infinite and Eternal Energy, from which all things proceed."* JS Mill says: "There is a large balance of probability in favour of... | |
| Lyman Abbott - Congregational churches - 1889 - 328 pages
...become the more mysterious the more they are thought about, there will remain the absolute certainty that we are ever in the presence of an Infinite and Eternal Energy from whom all things proceed." What is this but the statement, in the language of modern philosophy,... | |
| Science - 1890 - 920 pages
...throws little or no light. So the scientific process makes it as absolutely certain as anything can be that " we are ever in the presence of an Infinite and Eternal Energy from which all things proceed." But it is far from making certain what is the nature of this Energy,... | |
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