| American Unitarian Association - 1860 - 706 oldal
...Infinite. By the First Cause is meant that which produces all things, and is itself produced of none ; by the Absolute is meant that which exists in and...itself, having no necessary relation to any other being ; by the Infinite is meant that which is free from all possible limitation." Having thus defined the... | |
| John Kitto - 1860 - 526 oldal
...Infinite. By the First Cause is meant that which produces all things, and is itself produced of none. By the Absolute is meant that which exists in and...itself, having no necessary relation to any other being. By the Infinite is meant that which is free from all possible limitation ; that than which a greater... | |
| Henry Boynton Smith, James Manning Sherwood - 1860 - 772 oldal
...greater logical and philosophical anomaly, we should be curious to see it. Mansel says, the " Absolute is that which exists in and by itself, having no necessary relation to any other being ;" and the " Infinite is that which is free from all possible limitations," etc. Sir William subsumes... | |
| Henry Longueville Mansel - 1860 - 389 oldal
...Infinite. By the First Cause, is meant that which produces all things, and is itself produced of none. By the Absolute, is meant that which exists in and by itself, having 110 necessary relation to any other Being. (14) By the Infinite, is meant that which is free from all... | |
| Goldwin Smith - 1861 - 168 oldal
...Infinite. By the First Cause is meant that which produces all things, and is itself produced of none. By the Absolute, is meant that which exists in and...itself, having no necessary relation to any other being. By the Infinite is meant that which is free from all possible limitation; that than which a greater... | |
| 1861 - 736 oldal
...Infinite. By the First Cause is meant that which produces all things, and is itself produced of none. By the Absolute is meant that which exists in and...itself, having no necessary relation to any other Being. By the Infinite is meant that which is free from all possible limi.tation ; that than which a greater... | |
| James Oswald Dykes, James Stuart Candlish, Hugh Sinclair Paterson, Joseph Samuel Exell - 1861 - 994 oldal
...Infinite. By the First Cause ia meant that which produces all things, and is itself produced of none. By the Absolute?, is meant that which exists in and...itself, having no necessary relation to any other Wing. By the Infinite is meant that which is free from all possible limitation ; that, than which a... | |
| 1862 - 978 oldal
...Infinite. By the First Cause is meant that which produces all things, and is. itself produced of none. By the Absolute is meant that which exists in and...having no necessary relation to any other being." It will be seen how this definition of the absolute differs from the sense in which Sir William Hamilton... | |
| William Lonsdale Watkinson, William Theophilus Davison - 1873 - 552 oldal
...affirmed ignorance the most complete, both Hamilton and Mansel define both "Absolute" and "Infinite." " By Absolute is meant that which exists in and by itself,...having no necessary relation to any other being." It is " that which is aloof from relation, comparison, limitation, condition, dependence, &c." Now... | |
| John Stuart Mill - 1865 - 578 oldal
...of Infinite there is no difficulty. But when * Limits of Religious Thought, 4th edition, pp. 29, 30. we come to the Absolute we are on more slippery ground....when attempting the same thing. For Sir W. Hamilton recognises (as already remarked) this second meaning of Absolute, and this is the account he gives... | |
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