Amid the mysteries which become the more mysterious the more they are thought about, there will remain the ONE absolute certainty, that he is ever in the presence of an Infinite and Eternal Energy from which all things proceed. The Popular Science Monthly - Page 3511884Full view - About this book
| 1887 - 984 pages
...direction. In a late essay on " Religion, a Retrospect and Prospect," * Mr. Herbert Spencer tells us that " amid the mysteries which become the more mysterious...there will remain the one absolute certainty, that we are ever in • The Nineteenth Century. Vol. XV. presence of an Infinite and Eternal Energy, from... | |
| 1910 - 1076 pages
...same in all parts of 'the universe and in all epochs of history. This faith that " we are ever in the presence of an Infinite and Eternal Energy from which all things proceed " has driven out wherever it has gone all worship of minor deities, all attempts to represent him by... | |
| Robert William Dale, James Guinness Rogers - 1884 - 1120 pages
...substitute for religion? Let the religion of the future be stated in that distinguished writer's own words. "Amid the mysteries which become the more mysterious...there will remain the one absolute certainty that he [man] is ever in the presence of an Infinite, Eternal Energy from which all things proceed." This,... | |
| 1890 - 980 pages
...the scientific process makes it as absolutely certain as anything can be that " we are ever in the presence of an Infinite and Eternal Energy from which all things proceed." But it is far from making certain what is the nature of this Energy, which is scientifically as unknowable... | |
| 1895 - 580 pages
...thought passes inevitably from the world to God. Thus even the Agnostic is led to maintain that we are " ever in presence of an Infinite and Eternal Energy from which all things proceed." incompatible views of the universe. In modern philosophy when speculation ascends from the world to... | |
| Herbert Spencer - 1897 - 666 pages
...Existence everywhere manifested, to which he can neither find nor conceive either beginning or end. Amid the mysteries which become the more mysterious...and Eternal Energy, from which all things proceed. PART VII. PROFESSIONAL INSTITUTIONS. COPYRIGHT, 1896, BY D. APPLETON AND COMPANY. CHAPTER I. PROFESSIONS... | |
| 1886 - 680 pages
...considered competent to speak for the ultimate result of scientific investigation. This is what he says : " Amid the mysteries which become the more mysterious...there will remain the one absolute certainty that he [that is, each one of us] is ever in the presence of an Infinite and Eternal Energy, from which all... | |
| 1895 - 794 pages
...of the agnostic, " We do not know, we cannot tell." Even Herbert Spencer says, " We are ever in the presence of an infinite and eternal energy, from which all things proceed." The most thoughtful scientists recognize a power everywhere in creation, causing all the miraculous changes... | |
| Benjamin Wills Newton - 1882 - 700 pages
...religion, as well as science, is not a little indebted, tells us that " The man of Science is in the presence of an infinite and eternal energy from which all things proceed." " This eternal energy " (I quote the words of a recent critique on his writings) " is Mr. Herbert Spencer's... | |
| 1883 - 702 pages
...nor Agnostic. It is, that the searcher after truth, in contemplating the universe, will find that, " amid the mysteries which become the more mysterious...absolute certainty that he is ever in presence of an Infante and Eternal Energy, from which all things proceed." upon the " Something, not ourselves, that... | |
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