| 1857 - 602 páginas
...and outward things he thus discovers to be alike inscrutable in their ultimate genesis and nature. He sees that the materialist and spiritualist controversy...he understands that which it is impossible for any human being to understand. In all directions his investigations eventually bring him face to face with... | |
| John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell - 1857 - 624 páginas
...and outward things he thus discovers to be alike inscrutable in their ultimate genesis and nature. He sees that the materialist and spiritualist controversy...he understands that which it is impossible for any human being to understand. In all directions his investigations eventually bring him face to face with... | |
| Herbert Spencer - 1858 - 466 páginas
...and outward things he thus discovers to be alike inscrutable in their ultimate genesis and nature. He sees that the Materialist and Spiritualist controversy...a mere war of words ; the disputants being equally absurd—each believing he understands that which it is impossible for any man to understand. In all... | |
| Smithsonian Institution - 1883 - 818 páginas
...the midst of perpetual changes — of which he can discover neither the beginning nor the end. - - - In all directions his investigations eventually bring him face to face with an insoluble enigma ; and he ever more clearly perceives it to be an insoluble enigma." HERBERT SPENCER.... | |
| Herbert Spencer - 1862 - 528 páginas
...degradation of the so-called higher, but an elevation of the so-called lower. Perceiving, as he will, that the Materialist and Spiritualist controversy is a mere war of words, in which the disputants are equally absurd — each thinking ho understands that which it is impossible... | |
| Edward Royall Tyler, William Lathrop Kingsley, George Park Fisher, Timothy Dwight - 1863 - 878 páginas
...himself in the midst of perpetual changes, of which lie cnn discover neither the beginning nor the end. In all directions his investigations eventually bring him face to face with an insoluble enigma, and ho ever more clearly perceives it to be an insoluble enigma. lie learns at... | |
| Herbert Spencer - 1864 - 538 páginas
...degradation of the so-called higher, but an elevation of the so-called lower. Perceiving, as he will, that the Materialist and Spiritualist controversy is a mere war of words, in which the disputants are equally absurd — each thinking he understands that which it is impossible... | |
| Herbert Spencer - 1864 - 652 páginas
...Spiritualist controversy is a mere war of words, in which the disputants are equally absurd — each thinking he understands that which it is impossible for any man to understand — he will perceive how utterly groiindless is the fear referred to. Being fully convinced that whatever... | |
| 1865 - 734 páginas
...the Mosaic Cosmogony, in " Good Words," Oct. 1861. 3 Murphy on Genesis, p. 43. the more he is baffled In all directions his investigations eventually bring...more clearly perceives it to be the unknowable He feels, with a vividness which no others can, the utter incomprehensibleness of the simplest fact, considered... | |
| 1865 - 736 páginas
...Mosaic Cosmogony, in "Good Words," Oct. 1861. 3 Murphy on Genesis, p. 43. the more he is baffled ID all directions his investigations Eventually bring...more clearly perceives it to be the unknowable He feels, with a vividness which no others can, the utter incomprehensibleness of the simplest fact, considered... | |
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