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" 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... "
The Merriam-Webster New Book of Word Histories - Page 6
by Merriam-Webster, Inc - 1991 - 526 pages
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Nature, Volume 63

Sir Norman Lockyer - 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...I took the earliest opportunity of parading it at oar Society, to show that I, too, had a tail like the other foxes." Huxley denied that he was disposed...
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The American Journal of Science

1895 - 1104 pages
...pretty strong conviction that the problem was insoluble. ***** go I took thought, and invented what 1 conceived to be the appropriate title of " agnostic."...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...
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Eclectic Magazine: Foreign Literature, Volume 49; Volume 112

John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell - 1889 - 906 pages
...his tail remained, he presented himself to his normally elongated companions. So I took thought, and invented what I conceived to be the appropriate title...earliest opportunity of parading it at our Society, to show that I, too, had a tail, like the other foxes. To my great satisfaction, the term took ; and...
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Nineteenth Century and After, Volume 25

1889 - 1040 pages
...his tail remained, he presented himself to his normally elongated companions. So I took thought, and invented what I conceived to be the appropriate title...earliest opportunity of parading it at our Society, to show that I, too, had a tail, like the other foxes. To my great satisfaction, the term took ; and...
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The Popular Science Monthly, Volume 34

1889 - 902 pages
...his tail remained, he presented himself to his normally elongated companions. So I took thought, and invented what I conceived to be the appropriate title...earliest opportunity of parading it at our society, to show that I, too, had a tail, like the other foxes. To my great satisfaction, the term took ; and...
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The Nineteenth Century, Volume 25

1889 - 1104 pages
...his tail remained, he presented himself to his normally elongated companions. So I took thought, and invented what I conceived to be the appropriate title...earliest opportunity of parading it at our Society, to show that I, too, had a tail, like the other foxes. To my great satisfaction, the term took ; and...
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The North American Review, Volume 149

1889 - 784 pages
...himself to his normally-elongated companions. So I took thought, and invented what I conceived to bo the appropriate title of 'agnostic.' It came into...earliest opportunity of parading it at our Society, to show that I, too, had a tail, like the other foxes. To my great satisfaction, the term took, and...
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Book News, Volume 7

1889 - 450 pages
...rag of a label to cover myself with, felt like the fox who had lost his tail. So I took thought and invented what I conceived to be the appropriate title...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...
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The Theological Monthly: An Exponent of Current Christian Thought ..., Volume 1

1889 - 448 pages
..."agnostic," and with that little bit of autobiography most thinkers will heartily sympathise. He says : " It came into my head as suggestively antithetic to...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...
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The Presbyterian Quarterly, Volume 4

1890 - 664 pages
...presented himself to his normally elongated companions. So I took thought, and invented what I conceive to be the appropriate title of ' agnostic. ' It came...earliest opportunity of parading it at our society, to show that I had a tail, like the other foxes. To my great satisfaction the term took; and when the...
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