| John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell - 1889 - 906 Seiten
...further to modify our opinion of this strange and ill-comprehended entity, and were to reveal in what we, " in our ignorance of its latent powers, and notwithstanding...its Creator, have hitherto covered with opprobrium," a capacity, barely suspected heretofore, of unfolding the highest manifestations of life and thought... | |
| 1890 - 612 Seiten
...Tyndall has said, " By an intellectual necessity, I cross the boundary of the experimental evidence, and discern in that matter which we, in our ignorance...the promise and potency of all terrestrial life." This utterance which has made so much stir in theological circles, what is it but the expression of... | |
| 1890 - 492 Seiten
...(what right has he to do this in matters where experiment and facts are the only tests of truth ?) " and discern in that matter which we, in our ignorance...the promise and potency of all terrestrial life." An intellectual necessity indeed ! An attempt at mathematical reasoning ! A figment of his own brain... | |
| Randolph Sinks Foster - 1890 - 472 Seiten
...eye. By a necessity engendered and justified by science I cross the boundary of experimental evidence, and discern in that matter which we, in our ignorance...powers, and notwithstanding our professed reverence of its Creator, have hitherto covered with opprobrium the promise and potency of all terrestrial life."... | |
| William James - 1890 - 718 Seiten
...across the boundary of the experimental evidence, and discern in that matter which we. in our ignorance and notwithstanding our professed reverence for its...covered with opprobrium the promise and potency of every form and quality of life." t — mental life included, as a matter of course. So strong a postulate... | |
| 1901 - 736 Seiten
...backward across the boundary of experimental evidence and discover in matter, which we, in our ignorance, and notwithstanding our professed reverence for its...covered with opprobrium, the promise and potency of every form and quality of life." In other words, Tyndall found the intelligent Force and Cause of evolution... | |
| William James - 1890 - 716 Seiten
...across the boundary of the experimental evidence, and discern in that matter which we, in our ignorance and notwithstanding our professed reverence for its...covered with opprobrium the promise and potency of every form and quality of life." t — mental life included, as a matter of course. So strong a postulate... | |
| Thomas Hubbard Musick - 1890 - 390 Seiten
...across the boundary of the experimental evidence, and discern in that matter, which we in our ignorance, and notwithstanding our professed reverence for its...covered with opprobrium, the promise and potency of every form and quality of life."—Belfast Address. Prof. Youmans says: " Those who deny spontaneous... | |
| Sir Henry Jones - 1891 - 386 Seiten
...it, he proclaims, " By an intellectual necessity I cross the boundary of the experimental evidence, and discern in that Matter which we, in our ignorance...opprobrium, the promise and potency of all terrestrial life."1 A little further on, speaking in the name of science, and on behalf of his scientific fellow-workers... | |
| 1891 - 446 Seiten
...across the boundary of experimental evidence, and discern in that matter which we in our ignorance, and notwithstanding our professed reverence for its...covered with opprobrium, the promise and potency of every form and quality of life." We have found that all sensation — yes, human existence is claimed... | |
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