 | Noah Porter - 1883 - 714 oldal
...beyond the sphere of all comprehensible reality."— Hamilton, Dif. Rev. of Cousin. Hansel says : " We are compelled by the constitution of our minds,...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 finite."... | |
 | William David Ground - 1883 - 394 oldal
...the laws of thought. Mr. Mansel is betrayed into a like inconsistency. When he says that 'we are f 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... | |
 | Charles Woodruff Shields - 1888 - 446 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... | |
 | William Leslie Davidson - 1893 - 512 oldal
...which the attempted analysis of the ideas suggested to us by the Absolute and Infinite throws us, " 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... | |
 | John Garnier - 1895 - 538 oldal
...when there is nothing ! * ' First Principles, ' p. 91. So also Mr. Mansel speaks of being forced ' by the ' constitution of our minds to believe in the existence of an ' Absolute and Infinite Being, a belief which appears to be ' forced upon us as the complement of our consciousness ' of the relative... | |
 | Samuel James Andrews - 1898 - 396 oldal
...thought can possibly attach itself." Yet Mansel believed in such an absolute and infinite Person. " We are compelled by the constitution of our minds...the existence of an absolute and infinite Being." And this being is personal. " The highest existence is still the highest personalty ; and the source... | |
 | Leslie Stephen - 1900 - 542 oldal
...itself. But Mansel has to declare that we are forced to believe where we cannot even properly think. ' We are compelled by the constitution of our minds...believe in the existence of an absolute and infinite Being,1 3 though, as we learn, to ' think of the infinite ' is really a negation of thought. A decision... | |
 | Augustus Hopkins Strong - 1907 - 404 oldal
...an aiready existing standard — the Infinite. Mansel, Limits of Religous Thought, lect. 3 — " Wo are compelled by the constitution of our minds to...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... | |
 | Augustus Hopkins Strong - 1907 - 1218 oldal
...with an already existing standard — the Infinite. Mansel, Limits of Kcligrous Thought, lect. 3 — " We are compelled by the constitution of our minds to believe in the existence of an Absolute and Iiiflnito Being— a belief which appears forced upon us as the complement of our consciousness of... | |
 | James Bradun Alexander - 1909 - 364 oldal
...inspired, of "something unconditioned beyond the sphere of all comprehensible reality." Dean Mansel says, we are "compelled by the constitution of our minds...believe in the existence of an Absolute and Infinite Being."0 Thus these apostles of English metaphysics reach the end of their logic at the boundary line... | |
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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. 
