We are thus taught the salutary lesson, that the capacity of thought is not to be constituted into the measure of existence; and are warned from recognizing the domain of our knowledge as necessarily coextensive with the horizon of our faith. And by a... First Principles - Page 94by Herbert Spencer - 1864 - 602 pagesFull view - About this book
| Victor Cousin - Bookbinding - 1834 - 398 pages
...recognizing the domain of our knowledge as necessarily co-extensive with the horizon of our faith. And by a wonderful revelation, we are thus, in the very consciousness of our inability to conceive aught beyond the relative and finite, inspired with a belief in the existence of something unconditioned... | |
| Maurice Cross - 1835 - 920 pages
...wonderful revelation, we are thus, in the very consciousness of our inability to conceive aught beyond the relative and finite, inspired with a belief in...of something unconditioned beyond the sphere of all comprehensive reality. 2. The second opinion, that of Kant, is fundamentally the same as the preceding.... | |
| Maurice Cross - 1835 - 520 pages
...recognising the domain of our knowledge as necessarily co-extensive with the horizon of our faith. And by a wonderful revelation, we are thus, in the. very consciousness of our inability to conceive aught beyond the relative and finite, inspired with a belief in the existence of something unconditioned... | |
| Methodist Church - 1861 - 716 pages
...though, as we must think, with the grossest inconsistency : " Thus, by a wonderful revelation, we are, in the very consciousness of our inability to conceive...beyond the sphere of all comprehensible reality." That is indeed a " wonderful revelation " which reveals the unthinkable to thought, in violation of... | |
| Universalism - 1858 - 906 pages
...recognizing the domain of our knowledge as necessarily co-extensive with the horizon of our faith. And by a wonderful revelation, we are thus, in the very...of something unconditioned beyond the sphere of all comprehensive reality." (Philosophy of the Conditioned, Wight's Edition of the Philosophy of Hamilton,... | |
| American literature - 1859 - 626 pages
...,arid in the philosophy of Hamilton so far as it has been given to the public. Sir W. Hamilton says: "By a wonderful revelation we are thus, in the very...inspired with a belief in the existence of something unconditional, boy ond the sphere of all comprehensive reality." (Discuss, p. 15.) He speaks of a horizon... | |
| John Harris - Human beings - 1849 - 526 pages
...recognizing the domain of our knowledge as necessarily coextensive with the horizon of our faith. And, by a wonderful revelation, we are thus, in the very consciousness of our inability to conceive aught beyond the relative and finite, inspired with a belief in the existence of something unconditioned... | |
| Sir William Hamilton - Education - 1852 - 848 pages
...knowledge as necessarily co-extensive with the horizon of our faith. And by a wonderful revelation, we arc thus, in the very consciousness of our inability to...beyond the sphere of all comprehensible reality.* 2. The second opinion, that of KANT, is fundamentally the same ;is the preceding. Metaphysic, strictly... | |
| Sir William Hamilton - Education - 1853 - 828 pages
...recognizing the domain of our knowledge as necessarily co-extensive with the horizon of our faith. And by a wonderful revelation, we are thus, in the very...beyond the sphere of all comprehensible reality.' 2. The second opinion, that of KANT, is fundamentally the same as the preceding. Metaphysic, strictly... | |
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