 | William Hales - 1800 - 128 pages
...nearer to HIMSELF— THE FIRST AND SUPREME CAUSE: — We know not how far it was proper or neceflary, that WE fhould not be let into knowledge at once,...difcoveries with what was known to us before, our improvement might be more compleat and regular : or how far ic may be neceflary or advantageous that... | |
 | Emanuel Swedenborg, T. M. Gorman - 1875 - 580 pages
...knowledge at once, but should advance gradually, that, by comparing new objects, or new discoveries, with what was known to us before, our improvements...be more complete and regular ; or how far it may be necessary or advantageous, that intelligent beings should pass through a kind of infancy of knowledge.... | |
 | Sylvia Bowerbank - 2004 - 324 pages
...knowledge at once, but should advance gradually, that, by comparing new objects, or new discoveries, with what was known to us before, our improvements might be more complete and regular; or how tar it may be necessary or advantageous, that intelligent beings should pass through a kind of infancy... | |
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We know not how far it was proper or necessary that we should not be let into knowledge at once, but should advance gradually, that, by comparing new objects, or new discoveries, with what was known to us before, our improvements might be more complete... 