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" He learns at once the greatness and the littleness of the human intellect — its power in dealing with all that comes within the range of experience ; its impotence in dealing with all that transcends experience. He realizes with a special vividness... "
Disputed questions of belief, lectures to young men, delivered at the ... - Page 193
by London coll. of the Presbyterian church in England - 1874 - 252 pages
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First Principles

Herbert Spencer - Philosophy, English - 1862 - 528 pages
...comes within the range of experience ; its impotence in dealing with all that transcends experience. He realizes with a special vividness the utter incomprehensibleness...fact, considered in itself. He, more than any other, truly kitoirs that in its ultimate essence nothing can be known. CHAPTER IV. THE RELATIVITY OF ALL...
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New Englander and Yale Review, Volume 22

Edward Royall Tyler, William Lathrop Kingsley, George Park Fisher, Timothy Dwight - United States - 1863 - 878 pages
...comeg within the range of experience, its impotence in dealing with all that transcends experience. He realizes with a special vividness the utter incomprehensibleness...fact, considered in itself. He, more than any other, truly knows that in its ultimate essence nothing can be known." pp. 66, 67. All ultimate scientific...
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First Principles of a New System of Philosophy

Herbert Spencer - Philosophy, Modern - 1864 - 538 pages
...comes within the range of experience ; its impotence in dealing with all that transcends experience. He realizes with a special vividness the utter incomprehensibleness...fact, considered in itself. He, more than any other, truly that in its ultimate essence nothing can be known. CHAPTER IV. THE RELATIVITY OF ALL KNOWLEDGE....
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First Principles

Herbert Spencer - Evolution - 1864 - 664 pages
...all that transcends experience. He realizes with a special vividness the utter incomprehensiblencss of the simplest fact, considered in itself. He, more than any other, truly knows that in its ultimate essence nothing can be known. CHAPTER IV. THE RELATIVITY OF ALL KNOWLEDGE....
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First Principles of a New System of Philosophy

Herbert Spencer - Philosophy, Modern - 1865 - 528 pages
...coines irithin the range of experience ; its impotence in dealing with all that transcends experience. He realizes with a special vividness the utter incomprehensibleness of the simplest feet, considered in itself. He, more than any other, truly that in its ultimate essence nothing can...
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The British Quarterly Review, Volume 37

Henry Allon - Christianity - 1863 - 622 pages
...all that transcends experience. He realizes with a special vividness the utter ineomprehensibleness of the simplest fact, considered in itself. He, more than any other, truly knows that in its ultimate essence nothing can be known.' Thus are Ultimate Scientific Ideas,...
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First Principles of a New System of Philosophy

Herbert Spencer - Philosophy, English - 1870 - 600 pages
...comes within the range of experience; its impotence in dealing with all that transcends experience. He realizes with a special vividness the utter incomprehensibleness of the simplest fact, considered in itself. lie, more than any other, truly knovcs that in its ultimate essence nothing can be known. CHATTER IV....
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The Religion of Humanity

Octavius Brooks Frothingham - Unitarian churches - 1873 - 348 pages
...within the range of experience, its impotence in dealing with all that transcends experience. We realize with a special vividness the utter incomprehensibleness of the simplest fact considered in itself. The scientific man, more truly than any other, knows that in its essence nothing can be known." Thus...
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Modern Physical Fatalism and the Doctrine of Evolution: Including an ...

Thomas Rawson Birks - Christianity - 1876 - 346 pages
...its impotence in dealing with all that transcends experience. He realizes with special vividness the incomprehensibleness of the simplest fact, considered...knows that in its ultimate essence nothing can be known." The one element of truth in this passage has been long anticipated in those words of the Apostle...
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Revealed Religion, Expounded by Its Relations to the Moral Being of God ...

Henry Cotterill - Christianity - 1884 - 144 pages
...eventually bring him face to face with an insoluble enigma; and he ever more clearly perceives it to be an insoluble enigma. * * * He realizes with a special...fact considered in itself. He, more than any other, truly knows that in its ultimate essence nothing can be known." When we pass from inanimate nature...
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