The Philosophy of Herbert Spencer: Being an Examination of the First Principles of His SystemNelson & Phillips, 1874 - 283 oldal |
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16. oldal
... prove . " Yet , strange as it may seem , Mr. Spencer denies that his system is atheistic . The ground of the * " First Principles , " p . 495 . But , denial is his doctrine of an unknowable . 16 Review of Herbert Spencer .
... prove . " Yet , strange as it may seem , Mr. Spencer denies that his system is atheistic . The ground of the * " First Principles , " p . 495 . But , denial is his doctrine of an unknowable . 16 Review of Herbert Spencer .
29. oldal
... prove them may be difficult , but to believe them is impossible . We certainly see the ghost according to programme ; but we cannot rid ourselves of the con- viction that concave mirrors and magic lanterns are at the bottom of the show ...
... prove them may be difficult , but to believe them is impossible . We certainly see the ghost according to programme ; but we cannot rid ourselves of the con- viction that concave mirrors and magic lanterns are at the bottom of the show ...
38. oldal
... prove that this mystery lies utterly without the limits of knowledge , Mr. Spencer appeals to the doctrine of the relativity of knowledge , and offers the following argument : " If , when walking through the fields some day in September ...
... prove that this mystery lies utterly without the limits of knowledge , Mr. Spencer appeals to the doctrine of the relativity of knowledge , and offers the following argument : " If , when walking through the fields some day in September ...
56. oldal
... proved two truisms : first , that all our knowledge must be related to our faculties ; and sec- ond , that being , without attribute or power or mani- festation of any kind , is unknowable ; both of which may be admitted without at all ...
... proved two truisms : first , that all our knowledge must be related to our faculties ; and sec- ond , that being , without attribute or power or mani- festation of any kind , is unknowable ; both of which may be admitted without at all ...
64. oldal
... prove that in eternal darkness there would be no light , and no sound in everlasting silence . This most petty , pitiful , and barren conclusion is all that is reached ; while the unhappy looker - on , entangled in verbal confusions ...
... prove that in eternal darkness there would be no light , and no sound in everlasting silence . This most petty , pitiful , and barren conclusion is all that is reached ; while the unhappy looker - on , entangled in verbal confusions ...
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106. oldal - Knowledge before — a discovery that there are more things in heaven and earth than are dreamed of in our philosophy.
122. oldal - Hast thou not known ? hast thou not heard, that the everlasting God, the Lord, the Creator of the ends of the earth, fainteth not, neither is weary? there is no searching of his understanding.
122. oldal - Lift up your eyes on high, and behold who hath created these things, that bringeth out their host by number : he calleth them all by names by the greatness of his might, for that he is strong in power ; not one faileth.
68. oldal - The very conception of consciousness, in whatever mode it may be manifested, necessarily implies distinction between one object and another. To be conscious, we must be conscious of something ; and that something can only be known, as that which it is, by being distinguished from that which it is not. But distinction is necessarily limitation ; for, if one object is to be distinguished from another, it must possess some form of existence which the other has not, or it must not possess some form which...
252. oldal - ... something in the surrounding world which helped all variations in the direction of an accurate time-keeper, and checked all those in other directions ; then it is obvious that the force of Paley's argument would be gone. For it would be demonstrated that an apparatus thoroughly well adapted to a particular purpose might be the result of a method of trial and error worked by unintelligent agents, as well as of the direct application of the means appropriate to that end, by an intelligent agent.
58. oldal - Supposing the Absolute to become a cause, it will follow that it operates by means of freewill and consciousness. For a necessary cause cannot be conceived as absolute and infinite. If necessitated by something beyond itself, it is thereby limited by a superior power ; and if necessitated by itself, it has in its own nature a necessary relation to its effect.
161. oldal - And this brings us to the true conclusion implied throughout the foregoing pages — the conclusion that it is one and the same Ultimate Reality which is manifested to us subjectively and objectively. For while the nature of that which is manifested under either form proves to be inscrutable, the order of its manifestations throughout all mental phenomena proves to be the same as the order of its manifestations throughout all material phenomena.
229. oldal - ... proportions in so artistic a way that, after watching the process hour by hour, one is almost involuntarily possessed by the notion that some more subtle aid to vision than an achromatic would show the hidden artist, with his plan before him, striving with skillful manipulation to perfect his work.
19. oldal - Through pure excess of complexity, and long before observation can have any voice in the matter, the most highly trained intellect, the most refined and disciplined imagination, retires in bewilderment from the contemplation of the problem. We are struck dumb by an astonishment...
95. oldal - The transformation of the unorganized contents of an egg into the organized chick, is altogether a question of heat: withhold heat and the process does not commence; supply heat and it goes on while the temperature is maintained, but ceases when the egg is allowed to cool.