 So I took thought, and invented what I conceived to be the appropriate title of "agnostic." It came into my head as suggestively antithetic to the  Thomas Henry Huxley - Page 212by Edward Clodd - 1902 - 252 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Sir Norman Lockyer - Science - 1901 - 1076 pages
...agnostic. It came into my head as sjfgestively antithetic to the gnostic of Church history, who pii-fessed to know so much about the very things of which I was ignorant : and I took the earliest opportunity of parading it at oar Society, to show that I, too, had a tail... | |
 | Science - 1895 - 1104 pages
...go I took thought, and invented what 1 conceived to be the appropriate title of " agnostic." It came into my head as suggestively antithetic to the "gnostic"...much about the very things of which I was ignorant." One thing that will always be of special interest to Americans is Huxley's visit to this country, in... | |
 | Religion - 1889 - 448 pages
...and with that little bit of autobiography most thinkers will heartily sympathise. He says : " It came into my head as suggestively antithetic to the 'gnostic'...much about the very things of which I was ignorant." In this he was perfectly correct, for he did not know these things ; and so he was, in fact, an agnostic... | |
 | North American review - 1889 - 784 pages
...So I took thought, and invented what I conceived to bo the appropriate title of 'agnostic.' It came into my head as suggestively antithetic to the 'gnostic...much about the very things of which I was ignorant ; and I took the earliest opportunity of parading it at our Society, to show that I, too, had a tail,... | |
 | English periodicals - 1889 - 1040 pages
...So I took thought, and invented what I conceived to be the appropriate title of ' agnostic.' It came into my head as suggestively antithetic to the ' gnostic...much about the very things of which I was ignorant; and I took the earliest opportunity of parading it at our Society, to show that I, too, had a tail,... | |
 | Science - 1889 - 902 pages
...So I took thought, and invented what I conceived to be the appropriate title of " agnostic." It came into my head as suggestively antithetic to the " gnostic...much about the very things of which I was ignorant ; and I took the earliest opportunity of parading it at our society, to show that I, too, had a tail,... | |
 | Nineteenth century - 1889 - 1104 pages
...So I took thought, and invented what I conceived to be the appropriate title of ' agnostic.' It came into my head as suggestively antithetic to the ' gnostic...much about the very things of which I was ignorant; and I took the earliest opportunity of parading it at our Society, to show that I, too, had a tail,... | |
 | John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell - 1889 - 906 pages
...I took thought, and invented what I conceived to be the appropriate title of '' agnostic." It came into my head as suggestively antithetic to the " gnostic"...much about the very things of which I was ignorant ; and I took the earliest opportunity of parading it at our Society, to show that I, too, had a tail,... | |
 | Philadelphia (Pa.) - 1889 - 450 pages
...So I took thought and invented what I conceived to be the appropriate title of " agnostic." It came into my head as suggestively antithetic to the gnostic of church history, who professed to know so'much about the very things of which I was ignorant, and I took the earliest opportunity of parading... | |
 | Presbyterianism - 1890 - 664 pages
...So I took thought, and invented what I conceive to be the appropriate title of ' agnostic. ' It came into my head as suggestively antithetic to the 'gnostic'...much about the very things of which I was ignorant ; and I took the earliest opportunity of parading it at our society, to show that I had a tail, like... | |
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