 | Herbert Spencer - 1910 - 280 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... | |
 | Arthur Cushman McGiffert - 1915 - 336 oldal
...contradictions, and, while it is necessary to assume its existence, it is impossible to know anything about it. "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... | |
 | Noah Porter - 1869 - 704 oldal
...beyond the sphere of all comprehensible reality."— Hamilton, Dis. Rev. of Cousin. Mansel 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 Lonsdale Watkinson, William Theophilus Davison - 1860 - 576 oldal
...be consistent. But he lays down very different doctrine from this. ' We are compelled,' he says, ' by the constitution of our minds, to believe in the existence of an Absolute or Infinite Being, — a belief which appears forced upon us as the complement of our consciousness... | |
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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. 
