 Hence, though of the two it seems easier to translate so-called matter into so-called spirit, than to translate so-called spirit into so-called matter (which latter is, indeed, wholly impossible), yet no translation can carry us beyond our symbols.  Idealism: An Essay, Metaphysical and Critical - Page 88by William Graham - 1872 - 196 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Herbert Spencer - 1870 - 704 pages
...as far as ever from forming a conception of that which is universally sentient. Hence though of tho two it seems easier to translate socalled Matter into...yet no translation can carry us beyond our symbols. Such vaguo conceptions as loom before us * are illusions conjured up by the wrong connotations of our... | |
 | Herbert Spencer - 1871 - 660 pages
...far as ever from forming a conception of that which is universally sentient. Hence though of tho twe it seems easier to translate socalled Matter into...yet no translation can carry us beyond our symbols. S"uch vague conceptions as loom before us are illusions conjured up by the wrong connotations of our... | |
 | 1872 - 806 pages
...my own view is, I may, perhaps, without impropriety, quote passages which I have written elsewhere : "Hence, though of the two it seems easier to translate...translation can carry us beyond our symbols." * And again : "See, then, our predicament. We can think of Matter only in terms of Mind. We can think of... | |
 | Herbert Spencer - 1872 - 660 pages
...sentiency, we should be as far as ever from forming a conception of that which is universally sentient. Hence though of the two it seems easier to translate...yet no translation can carry us beyond our symbols. Such vague conceptions as loom before us are illusions conjured up by the wrong connotations of our... | |
 | 1872 - 798 pages
...may, perhaps, without impropriety, quote passages which I have written elsewhere : "Hence, thongh »f the two it seems easier to translate so-called Matter...translation can carry us beyond our symbols." * And again : " See, then, our predicament. "We can think of Matter only in terms of Mind. We can think of... | |
 | Manthano (pseud.) - 1872 - 396 pages
...without impropriety, quote some out of many passages which I have written on the question elsewhere. Hence, though of the two it seems easier to translate...matter which latter is, indeed, wholly impossible." ' ' See, then, our predicament. We can think of matter only in terms of mind. We can think of mind... | |
 | Herbert Spencer - 1873 - 662 pages
...sentiency, we should be as far as ever from forming a conception of that which is universally sentient. Hence though of the two it seems easier to translate...yet no translation can carry us beyond our symbols. Such vague conceptions as loom before us are illusions conjured up by the wrong connotations of our... | |
 | Herbert Spencer - 1873 - 660 pages
...as far as ever from forming a conception of that which is universally sentient. Hence though of tho two it seems easier to translate socalled Matter into...yet no translation can carry us beyond our symbols. Such vague conceptions as loom before ns are illusions conjured up by the wrong connotations of our... | |
 | Herbert Spencer - 1873 - 386 pages
...passages which I have written on the question elsewhere : " Hence, though of the two it seems casier to translate so-called Matter into so-called Spirit,...translation can carry us beyond our symbols." * And again: , " See, then, our predicament. "We can think of Matter only in terms of Mind. We can think... | |
 | William Jackson - 1874 - 436 pages
...161,) and repeated, to shew how anti-materialistic he is, in his last book. (Essays. III., p. 250.) "Of the two it seems easier to translate so-called...Matter, which latter is, indeed, wholly impossible." But though it is true, as he adds, that "no translation can carry us beyond our symbols/' it is no... | |
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