 The objects and actions surrounding us, not less than the phenomena of our consciousness, compel us to ask a cause; in our search for a cause, we discover no resting place until we arrive at the hypothesis of a First Cause ; and we have no alternative...  First Principles of a New System of Philosophy - Sayfa 38Herbert Spencer tarafından - 1872 - 566 sayfaTam görünüm - Bu kitap hakkında
 | Herbert Spencer - 1862 - 528 sayfa
...compel us to ask a cause ; in our search for a cause, we discover no resting place taitil we arrive at the hypothesis of a First Cause ; and we have no...are these reasonings and their results. But that it would tax the reader's patience to no purpose, it might easily be proved that the materials of which... | |
 | Herbert Spencer - 1864 - 650 sayfa
...compel us to ask a cause ; in our search for a cause, we discover no resting place until we arrive at the hypothesis of a First Cause ; and we have no...arguments from which there appears no escape. It is hardly iieedful however to show those who have followed thus far, how illusive are these reasonings and their... | |
 | Jesse Henry Jones - 1865 - 236 sayfa
...lawlessness cannot establish law ; and so could not be the First Cause. As Mr. Spencer truly says, "we have no alternative but to regard this First Cause as Infinite and Absolute." And now having learned, by a true diagnosis of the mental activities, that the positions we have gained... | |
 | Jesse Henry Jones - 1865 - 252 sayfa
...lawlessness cannot establish law ; and so could not be the First Cause. As Mr. Spencer truly says, " we have no alternative but to regard this First Cause as Infinite and Absolute." And now having learned, by a true diagnosis of the mental activities, that the positions we have gained... | |
 | Emanuel Bonavia - 1869 - 186 sayfa
...consciousness, compel us to ask a cause. In our search for a cause, we discover no resting place until we arrive at the hypothesis of a First Cause, and we have no...illusive are these reasonings, and their results." . . . . " Instead, however, of repeating the disproof used above, it will be desirable to pursue another... | |
 | Herbert Spencer - 1870 - 600 sayfa
...compel us to ask a cause ; in our search for a cause, we discover no resting place until we arrive at the hypothesis of a First Cause ; and we have no...inferences forced upon us by arguments from which there appeal's no escape. It is hardly needful however to show those who have followed thus far, how illusive... | |
 | Herbert Spencer - 1870 - 588 sayfa
...compel us to ask a cause ; in our search for a cause, wo discover no resting place until we arrive at the hypothesis of a First Cause ; and we have no alternative but / \_)'to regard this First Cause as Infinite and Absolute. These are inferences foreed~upon us by arguments... | |
 | Stephen M. Lanigan - 1873 - 238 sayfa
...search for a cause we discover no resting-place until we arrive at the hypothesis of a First Cause : we have no alternative but to regard this First Cause as infinite and absolute.' Here the ideas of Metaphysical and Physical causes are combined in one, But the two ideas here mixed... | |
 | Thomas Martin Herbert - 1879 - 512 sayfa
...compel us to ask a ' cause ; in our search for a cause, we discover no rest' ing place until we arrive at the hypothesis of a First ' Cause ; and we have...regard this ' First Cause as infinite and absolute. . . It is hardly ' needful, however, to show those who have followed ' thus far, how illusive are these... | |
 | Thomas Martin Herbert - 1879 - 480 sayfa
...compel us to ask a ' cause ; in our search for a cause, we discover no rest' ing place until we arrive at the hypothesis of a First ' Cause ; and we have...regard this ' First Cause as infinite and absolute. . . It is hardly ' needful, however, to show those who have followed ' thus far, how illusive are these... | |
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