 Positively the principle may be expressed: In matters of the intellect, follow your reason as far as it will take you, without regard to any other consideration. And negatively in matters of the intellect do not pretend that conclusions are certain which...  Evolution and Dogma - Page 260by John Augustine Zahm - 1896 - 461 pagesFull view - About this book
 | 1907 - 1184 pages
...method, the essence of which lies in the rigorous application of a single principle. . . . Positively the principle may be expressed: In matters of the...certain which are not demonstrated or demonstrable." (Collected Essays, Vol. V., pp. 245246.) To many men of the generation now past middle age the memory... | |
 | Science - 1889 - 902 pages
...principle may be expressed : In matters of the intellect, follow yonr reason as far as it will take yon, without regard to any other consideration. And negatively...the agnostic faith, which if a man keep whole and undented, he shall not be ashamed to look the universe in the face, whatever the future may have in... | |
 | Mormons - 1889 - 514 pages
...distinguishing tenet of the former as expressed, in its positive aspect, by Mr. Huxley himself, reads thus: "In matters of the intellect, follow your reason as...take you, without regard to any other consideration." It is very evident, therefore, that this author does not intend to imply that Mormonism is a delusion... | |
 | Science - 1889 - 908 pages
...method, the essence of which lies in the vigorous application of a single principle. . . . Positively, the principle may be expressed : In matters of the...the agnostic faith, which if a man keep whole and nndefiled, he shall not be ashamed to look the universe in the face, whatever the future may have in... | |
 | Science - 1889 - 922 pages
...it is the great principle of Descartes ; it is the fundamental axiom of modern science. Positively the principle may be expressed : In matters of the...: In matters of the intellect, do not pretend that conchisions are certain which are not demonstrated or demonstrable. That I take to be the agnostic... | |
 | William Leslie Davidson - Theism - 1893 - 512 pages
...it is the great principle of Descartes ; it is the fundamental axiom of modern science. Positively the principle may be expressed : In matters of the...the agnostic faith, which if a man keep whole and undented, he shall not be ashamed to look the universe in the face, whatever the future may have in... | |
 | James Orr - Incarnation - 1893 - 586 pages
...lies in the rigorous application of a single principle. . . . Positively, the principle may be thus expressed : in matters of the intellect, follow your...the Agnostic faith, which, if a man keep whole and undefilcd, he shall not be ashamed to look the universe in the face, whatever the future may have iu... | |
 | William Leslie Davidson - Theism - 1893 - 528 pages
...opinion or to solve difficulties. It is. un12 questionably right, in matters of the intellect, to " follow your reason as far as it will take you without regard to any other consideration " ; it is undoubtedly your bounden duty " not to pretend that conclusions are certain which are not... | |
 | W. T. B. Martin, T. E. S. T. - Instinct - 1894 - 536 pages
...the great principle of Descartes ; it is the fundamental axiom of modern science. . . . Positively, the principle may be expressed — In matters of the...take you, without regard to any other consideration." On this point thinkers generally will agree. Continuing, he says, if you tell a true Agnostic " that... | |
 | Emanuel Bonavia - Animals - 1895 - 404 pages
...Evolution, p. 77. PROBABLE MEANING OF SOME INTERESTING FEATURES IN HORSES AND OTHER MAMMALS ' Positively, the principle may be expressed, in matters of the...certain, which are not demonstrated, or demonstrable.' From Professor HUXLEY'S Definition of Agnosticism. PART VI PROBABLE MEANING OF SOME INTERESTING FEATURES... | |
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