 | Maurice Cross - 1835 - 920 pages
...knowledge and of positive thought — thought necessarily supposes conditions; to think is therefore to condition, and conditional limitation is the fundamental law of the possibility of thought. How, * It is proper to observe, that though wo are of opinion that the tern» Infinite and Absolute.... | |
 | Methodist Church - 1861 - 716 pages
...only possible object of knowledge and of positive thought, thought necessarily supposes conditions. To think is to condition / and conditional limitation...the fundamental law of the possibility of thought. . . . The conditioned is the mean between two extremes — two inconditionates, exclusive of each other,... | |
 | Jared Sparks, Edward Everett, James Russell Lowell, Henry Cabot Lodge - American fiction - 1845 - 560 pages
...knowledge and of positive thought — thought necessarily supposes conditions; to think is therefore to condition, and conditional limitation is the fundamental law of the possibility of thought. How, indeed, it could ever be doubted that thought is only of the conditioned, may well be deemed a... | |
 | Sir William Hamilton - Education - 1852 - 848 pages
...only possible object of knowledge and of positive thought — thought necessarily supposes conditions. To think is to condition ; and conditional limitation...atmosphere in which he floats, and by which alone ho may be supported ; so the mind cannot transcend that sphere of limitation, within and through which... | |
 | 1853 - 570 pages
...absolute and relative knowledge. And with consummate tact Sir William shows, that as the eagle cannot out-soar the atmosphere in which he floats, and by...the mind cannot transcend that sphere of limitation, within and through which exclusively the possibility of thought is realised. Thought, he argues, is... | |
 | John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell, Henry T. Steele - American periodicals - 1853 - 606 pages
...absolute and relative knowledge. And with consummate tact Sir William shows, that as the eagle cannot out-soar the atmosphere in which he floats, and by...the mind cannot transcend that sphere of limitation, within and through which exclusively the possibility of thought is realized. Thought, he argues, is... | |
 | Thomas Campbell, Samuel Carter Hall, Edward Bulwer Lytton Baron Lytton, Theodore Edward Hook, Thomas Hood, William Harrison Ainsworth, William Ainsworth - 1853 - 536 pages
...absolute and relative knowledge. And with consummate tact Sir William shows, that as the eagle cannot out-soar the atmosphere in which he floats, and by...the mind cannot transcend that sphere of limitation, within and through which exclusively the possibility of thought is realised. Thought, he argues, is... | |
 | Sir William Hamilton - Education - 1853 - 832 pages
...only possible object of knowledge and of positive thought — thought necessarily supposes conditions. To think is to condition; and conditional limitation...fundamental law of the possibility of thought. For, as the grayhound can not outstrip his shadow, nor (by a more appropriate simile) the eagle outsoar the atmosphere... | |
 | Joseph Jones - 1853 - 208 pages
...diametrically opposed to, and contradictory of, the Infinite. 6. Thought necessarily supposes conditions. To think is to condition ; and conditional limitation...the fundamental law of the possibility of thought. The mind cannot transcend that sphere of limitation, within and through which exclusively the possibility... | |
 | John Williams - Welsh language - 1854 - 234 pages
...possible object 36 of knowledge and of positive thought ; thought necessarily supposes conditions. To think is to condition, and conditional limitation...atmosphere in which he floats, and by which alone he may be supported, so the mind cannot transcend that sphere of limitation, within and through which... | |
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As the conditionally limited (which we may briefly call the conditioned) is thus the only possible object of knowledge and of positive thought — thought necessarily supposes conditions. To think is to condition ; and conditional limitation is the fundamental... 
