| 1854 - 834 pages
...imperfect, and, therefore, we most heartily and fully concur in the principles laid down by Sir William, that ' the capacity of thought is not to be constituted into the measure of existente.' But, this principle we hold, rather as the result of our own doctrine, than of the doctrine... | |
| Maurice Cross - 1835 - 920 pages
...mutual contradiction, it is compelled to recognise as true. We are thus taught the salutary lesson, that the capacity of thought is not to be constituted...into the measure of existence ; and are warned from recognising the domain of our knowledge as necessarily co-extensive with the horizon of our faith.... | |
| 1861 - 716 pages
...their mutual repugnance, it is compelled to recognize as true. We are thus taught the salutary lesson that the capacity of thought is not to be constituted...faith. And by a wonderful revelation we are thus, in our very consciousness of our inability to conceive aught above the relative and finite, inspired with... | |
| Victor Cousin - 1842 - 488 pages
...his American assailant — I believe in that philosophy by which " we are taught the salutary lesson that the capacity of thought is not to be constituted...necessarily coextensive with the horizon of our faith."* I published this examination of Locke because, independently of any systematic peculiarities of the... | |
| Edward Royall Tyler, William Lathrop Kingsley, George Park Fisher, Timothy Dwight - 1862 - 914 pages
...cannot think it; the principles of contradiction and excluded middle teach us the salutary lesson, that the capacity of thought is not to be constituted into the measure of existence, and warn us from recognizing the domain of our knowledge as coextensive with the horizon of our faith.... | |
| 1858 - 906 pages
...their mutual repugnance, it is compelled to recognize as true. We are thus taught the salutary lesson, that the capacity of thought is not to be constituted...very consciousness of our inability to conceive aught above the relative and finite, inspired with a belief in the existence of something unconditioned beyond... | |
| 1859 - 626 pages
...,arid in the philosophy of Hamilton so far as it has been given to the public. Sir W. Hamilton says: "By a wonderful revelation we are thus, in the very consciousness of our inability to conceive aught above the relative and finite, inspired with a belief in the existence of something unconditional,... | |
| Sir William Hamilton - 1852 - 848 pages
...their mutual repugnance, it is compelled to recognise as true. We are thus taught the salutary lesson, that the capacity of thought is not to be constituted...into the measure of existence ; and are warned from recognising the domain of our knowledge as necessarily co-extensive with the horizon of our faith.... | |
| 1858 - 422 pages
...inconceivable;" and the conclusion at which he arrives is again, in the words of the same philosopher, " that the capacity of thought is not to be constituted into the measure of existence ;" and that we ought not to recognize " the domain of onr knowledge as necessarily coextensive with the horizon... | |
| Sir William Hamilton - 1853 - 832 pages
...their mutual repugnance, it is compelled to recognize as true. We are thus taught the salutary lesson, that the capacity of thought is not to be constituted...very consciousness of our inability to conceive aught above the relative and finite, inspired with a belief in the existence of something unconditioned beyond... | |
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