 If Religion and Science are to be reconciled, the basis of reconciliation must be this deepest, widest, and most certain of all facts — that the Power which the Universe manifests to us is utterly inscrutable.  The Contemporary Review - Page 4031868Full view - About this book
 | New Church gen. confer - 1868 - 602 pages
...Herbert Spencer — " If religion and science are to be reconciled, the basis of the reconciliation must be this deepest, widest, and most certain of...facts, that the power which the universe manifests to ui is utterly inscrutable." On this ground reconciliation is impossible. The human soul created for... | |
 | New Church gen. confer - 1869 - 636 pages
...Science are to be reconciled, the basis of reconciliation must be the deepest and most certain of all facts — that the Power which the universe manifests to us is utterly inscrutable." This is at least a plain, definite, and honest way of stating the case. It is moreover a pretentious... | |
 | Herbert Spencer - Philosophy, Modern - 1864 - 650 pages
...to be reconciled, the basis of reconciliation must be this deepest, widest, and most certain of all facts — that the Power which the Universe manifests to us is utterly inscrutable. CHAPTER HI. ULTIMATE SCIENTIFIC IDEAS. §15. WHAT are Space and Time? Two hypotheses are current respecting... | |
 | Herbert Spencer - Philosophy, Modern - 1864 - 538 pages
...to be reconciled, the basis of reconciliation must be this deepest, widest, and most certain of all facts — that the Power which the Universe manifests to us is utterly inscrutable. CHAPTER in. ULTIMATE SCIENTIFIC IDEAS. § 15. WHAT are Space and Time ? Two hypotheses are current... | |
 | Bible - 1874 - 824 pages
...unknowable as source of all that is. "The ultimate religious truth of the highest possible certainty " is " that the power which the universe manifests to us is utterly inscrutable." 1 And again : " Appearance [manifestation] without reality is unthinkable." 2 Therefore " the inscrutable... | |
 | James McCosh - Intuition - 1865 - 472 pages
...verity," "common to all religions,'' '' the ultimate religious truth of the highest possible certainty" that " the Power ', • which the universe manifests to us is utterly inscrutable." He quotes with approbation the language of Hamilton about its being the highest effort of thought to... | |
 | 1866 - 992 pages
...forty-six pages with elaborate proofs that " the deepest, widest, and most certain of all facts is, that the Power which the universe manifests to us, is utterly inscrutable."* But this truth, which Mr. Spencer takes so much trouble to demonstrate, was enunciated in the book... | |
 | James Samuelson, William Crookes - Science - 1868 - 664 pages
...Spencer, has said, ' If religion and science are to be reconciled, the basis of the reconciliation must be this deepest, widest, and most certain of...universe manifests to us, is utterly inscrutable.' The bonds that unite the physical and spiritual history of man, and the forces which manifest themselves... | |
 | Literature - 1868 - 978 pages
...Spencer, has said : — "If religion and science are to be reconciled, the basis of the reconciliation must be this deepest, widest, and most certain of...universe manifests to us is utterly inscrutable." The bond that unites the physical and spiritual history of man, and the forces which manifest themselves... | |
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