 | Charles Hodge, Lyman Hotchkiss Atwater - 1862 - 782 oldal
...destroys itself in the very effort to think what cannot be thought, but must be simply believed. " We are compelled, by the constitution of our minds,...believe in the existence of an Absolute and Infinite Being,—a belief which appears forced upon us, as the complement of our consciousness of the relative... | |
 | Noah Porter - 1873 - 730 oldal
...beyond the sphere of all comprehensible reality."— Hamilton, Di», Rev. qf Cousin. Mangel says : " We are compelled by the constitution of our minds,...in the existence of an Absolute and Infinite Being — a belief which appears forced upon us, as the complement of our consciousness of the relative and... | |
 | Herbert Spencer - 1873 - 602 oldal
...variance with the laws of thought. Mr Hansel is betrayed into a like inconsistency. When he says that " we are compelled, by the constitution of our minds, to believe in the existence of an Absolute -and Inr— finite Being, — a belief which appears forced upon us, as the complement of our consciousness... | |
 | Walter Richard Cassels - 1874 - 550 oldal
...independent of revelation, that it cannot even read the alphabet out of which that theology must be formed.2 We are compelled, by the constitution of our minds,...in the existence of an Absolute and Infinite Being ; but the instant we attempt to 1 Mantel, Aids to Faith, p. 30. 1 Mansel, Bampton Lectures, 1858 (Murray,... | |
 | Walter Richard Cassels - 1874 - 536 oldal
...revelation that it cannot even read the alphabet out of which that theology must be formed.1 We arc compelled, by the constitution of our minds, to believe...in the existence of an Absolute and Infinite Being ; but the instant we attempt to analyse, we are involved in inextricable confusion.11 Our moral consciousness... | |
 | Henry Longueville Mansel - 1875 - 382 oldal
...necessarily involve from every point of view. The result of that attempt may be briefly summed up as follows. "We are compelled, by the constitution of our minds,...in the existence of an Absolute and Infinite Being, — a belief which appears forced upon us, as the complement of our consciousness of the relative and... | |
 | Charles Woodruff Shields - 1877 - 650 oldal
...rationalism destroys itself in the very effort to think what cannot be thought, but must be simply believed. "We are compelled, by the constitution of our minds,...in the existence of an Absolute and Infinite Being, — a belief which appears forced upon us, as the complement of our consciousness of the relative and... | |
 | Herbert Spencer - 1877 - 608 oldal
...variance with the laws of thought. Mr Mansel is betrayed into a like inconsistency. When he says that " we are compelled, by the constitution of our minds,...believe in the existence of an Absolute and Infinite Being,—a belief which appears forced upon us, as the complement of our consciousness of the relative... | |
 | Walter Richard Cassels - 1879 - 628 oldal
...independent of revelation that it cannot even read the alphabet out of Avhich that theology must lie formed.1 We are compelled, by the constitution of our minds,...in the existence of an Absolute and Infinite Being ; but the instant we attempt to analyse, we are involved in inextricable confusion.2 Our moral consciousness... | |
 | William David Ground - 1883 - 392 oldal
...variance with the laws of thought. Mr. Mansel is betrayed into a like inconsistency. When he says that 'we are compelled, by the constitution of our minds,...in the existence of an Absolute and Infinite Being, — a belief which appears forced upon us, as the complement of our consciousness of the relative and... | |
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We are compelled, by the constitution of our minds, to believe in the existence of an Absolute and Infinite Being, — a belief which appears forced upon us, as the complement of our consciousness of the relative and the finite. 
