| John Stuart Mill - 1865 - 578 oldal
...universe, ex hypothesi, is only an effect." This curious subtlety, that creation must be either passing from the better to the worse or from the worse to the better (which, if true, would prove that God cannot have created anything unless from all eternity) can be... | |
| John Stuart Mill - 1865 - 578 oldal
...universe, ex hypothesi, is only an effect." This curious subtlety, that creation must be either passing from the better to the worse or from the worse to the better (which, if true, would prove that God cannot have created anything unless from all eternity) can be... | |
| Henry Longueville Mansel - 1866 - 208 oldal
...determined to create. " On this hypothesis," says Hamilton, " God, as necessarily determined to pass from absolute essence to relative manifestation, is...better to the worse, or from the worse to the better." Mr. Mill calls this argument "a curiosity of dialectics," and answers, " Perfect wisdom would have... | |
| Henry Longueville Mansel - 1866 - 214 oldal
...determined to create. " On this hypothesis," says Hamilton, "God, as necessarily determined to pass from absolute essence to relative manifestation, is...better to the worse, or from the worse to the better. " Mr. Mill calls this argument "a curiosity of dialectics," and answers, " Perfect wisdom would have... | |
| 1866 - 690 oldal
...determined to create. " On this hypothesis," says Hamilton, " God, as necessarily determined to pass from absolute essence to relative manifestation, is...better to the worse, or from the worse to the better." Mr. Mill calls this argument " a curiosity of dialectics," and answers, " Perfect wisdom would have... | |
| Robert Baker White - 1873 - 366 oldal
...determined to pass from absolute essence to relative manifestation, is determined to pass either_//w;z the better to the worse, or from the worse to the better. The first supposition must be rejected. The necessity in this case determines God to pass from the... | |
| John Stuart Mill - 1874 - 342 oldal
...absolute essence to relative manifest.ition, is determined to pass either from the better to the wcrse, or from the worse to the better. A third possibility,...by our author, it is not necessary to consider. The frit supposition must be rejected. The nccessity in this ease determincs God to pass from the better... | |
| Henry Longueville Mansel - 1875 - 382 oldal
...that is death, the not being what (one) was. Whatever therefore, undergoes this sort of death, whether from the better to the worse, or from the worse to the better, — that is not God." And so Jaeobi ( Von den yuttlithen D'myen, Werke, III. p. 391) says of the system... | |
| Randolph Sinks Foster - 1890 - 472 oldal
...creation, or any one of God's acts, as though it implied a change in God himself, or the necessity ' to pass either from the better to the worse, or from the worse to the better.' In like manner Dr. Mansel is unwarranted in his positive declaration that ' a cause cannot, as such,... | |
| 1830 - 594 oldal
...On this hypothesis, one of two alternatives must be admitted. God, as necessarily determined to pass from absolute essence to relative manifestation, is...worse to the better. A third possibility, that both atates are equal, as contradictory in itself, and as contradicted by our author, it is not necessary... | |
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