 | 1886 - Страниц: 540
...mysterious the more they are thought nbout, there w'ill remain the one absolute certainty that he is ever in presence of an Infinite and Eternal Energy, from which all things proceed." A fresh demonstration this that " the world by wisdom knows not Goil ; " " Canst thou by searching... | |
 | Literary and Philosophical Society of Liverpool - 1886 - Страниц: 698
...the more they are thought about, there will remain the one absolute certainty — that we are ever in presence of an infinite and eternal energy from which all things proceed. One rises from the study of Mr. Spencer's book with feelings it is by no means easy to analyse. Its... | |
 | 1895 - Страниц: 580
...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... | |
 | 1895 - Страниц: 794
...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... | |
 | 1881 - Страниц: 334
...recently given us his notion of the religion of the future, the motive power of which is to be the thought that we are " ever in the presence of an Infinite and Eternal Energy." This to some minds may stand for a high belief, and if so, it would probably be labor thrown away to... | |
 | Benjamin Wills Newton - 1882 - Страниц: 700
...? C 2 religion, as well as science, is not a little indebted, tells us that " The man of Science is in the presence of an infinite and eternal energy from which all things proceed." " This eternal energy " (I quote the words of a recent critique on his writings) " is Mr. Herbert Spencer's... | |
 | 1894 - Страниц: 630
...leaven is working. What means even Herbert Spencer, the prophet of materialism ? He says : " We are in the presence of an infinite and eternal energy from which all things proceed." He perhaps did not realize the inner splendor of the great truth he uttered. To him it was material,... | |
 | Thomas Walter Barber - 1884 - Страниц: 210
...mysterious the more they are thought about, there will remain the one absolute certainty that man is ever in the presence of an infinite and eternal energy from which all things proceed;' which is a practical admission that life and its source are eternal and superior to all created material... | |
 | Egbert Coffin Smyth - 1884 - Страниц: 720
...recently given us his notion of the religion of the future, the motive power of which is to be the thought that we are " ever in the presence of an Infinite and Eternal Energy." This to some minds may stand for a high belief, and if so, it would probably be labor thrown away to... | |
 | 1884 - Страниц: 954
...positive creed? It would seem so ; for Mr. Spencer brings us at last " to the one absolute certainty, the presence of an Infinite and Eternal Energy, from which all things proceed." But let no one suppose that this is merely a new name for the Great First Cause of so many theologies... | |
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Amid the mysteries which become the more mysterious the more they are thought about, there will remain the one absolute certainty that " we are " ever in the presence of an Infinite and Eternal Energy, from which all things proceed. 
