...last we are led, in the words of Spencer, to recognize the "one absolute certainty that he [man] is ever in the presence of an infinite and eternal energy from which all things proceed." However just this conclusion may be, these facts serve to show that the problem of causation has deeper...

...Eternal, there has grown up an agnosticism which declares the Eternal to be the Unknowable. It affirms that we are ever in the presence of an Infinite and Eternal Energy, but if we ask, What is its nature ? replies, Impossible to tell. Is it a good Energy or a bad Energy...

...there will remain the one absolute certainty, that we are ever in • The Nineteenth Century. Vol. XV. presence of an Infinite and Eternal Energy, from which all things proceed." Such leaders of thought as Professors Lotze in Germany and Bowne in this country, and many other metaphysicians...

...had better stop talking about them; sometimes purely intellectual, like that of Herbert Spencer — we are ever in the presence of an Infinite and Eternal Energy, but It is unknown and unknowable; sometimes pathetic, like that of Professor Clifford — the image...

...throws little or no light. So the scientific process makes it as absolutely certain as anything can be that " we are ever in the presence of an Infinite and Eternal Energy from which all things proceed." But it is far from making certain what is the nature of this Energy, which is scientifically as unknowable...

...necessary conclusions. This view is admitted by Herbert Spencer when he says that the universe implies an infinite and eternal energy from which all things proceed. It is recognized by Matthew Arnold when he speaks of a power not ourselves that makes for righteousness....

...passes inevitably from the world to God. Thus even the Agnostic is led to maintain that we are " ever in presence of an Infinite and Eternal Energy from which all things proceed." incompatible views of the universe. In modern philosophy when speculation ascends from the world to...

...mysterious the more they are thought about, there will remain the one absolute certainty, that he is ever in presence of an Infinite and Eternal Energy, from which all things proceed. PART VII. PROFESSIONAL INSTITUTIONS. COPYRIGHT, 1896, BY D. APPLETON AND COMPANY. CHAPTER I. PROFESSIONS...

...are thought about, there will remain the one absolute certainty that he [that is, each one of us] is ever in the presence of an Infinite and Eternal Energy, from which all things proceed." And what of this Eternal Energy? What of its nature? The same authority pronounces this verdict : "...

...the mild negative of the agnostic, " We do not know, we cannot tell." Even Herbert Spencer says, " We are ever in the presence of an infinite and eternal energy, from which all things proceed." The most thoughtful scientists recognize a power everywhere in creation, causing all the miraculous...