| Missions - 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... | |
| Victor Cousin - Bookbinding - 1834 - 398 pages
...which, however, on the ground of their mutual contradiction, it is compelled to recognize as true. We are thus taught the salutary lesson, that the capacity...into the measure of existence ; and are warned from recognizing the domain of our knowledge as necessarily co-extensive with the horizon of our faith.... | |
| Methodist Church - 1861 - 716 pages
...of which, however, on the ground of their mutual repugnance, it is compelled to recognize as true. We are thus taught the salutary lesson that the capacity...into the measure of existence, and are warned from recognizing the domain of our knowledge as necessarily coextensive with the horizon of our faith. And... | |
| Victor Cousin - Psychology - 1842 - 488 pages
...and contemptuous spirit of his American assailant — I believe in that philosophy by which " we are taught the salutary lesson that the capacity of thought...into the measure of existence ; and are warned from recognizing the domain of our knowledge as necessarily coextensive with the horizon of our faith."*... | |
| Universalism - 1858 - 906 pages
...of which, however, on the ground of their mutual repugnance, it is compelled to recognize as true. We are thus taught the salutary lesson, that the capacity...into the measure of existence ; and are warned from recognizing the domain of our knowledge as necessarily co-extensive with the horizon of our faith.... | |
| John Harris - Human beings - 1849 - 526 pages
...we do not know. " We are thus taught the salutary lesson," (says Sir W. Hamilton, very admirably,) " that the capacity of thought is not to be constituted...into the measure of existence, and are warned from recognizing the domain of our knowledge as necessarily coextensive with the horizon of our faith. And,... | |
| Sir William Hamilton - Education - 1852 - 848 pages
...of which, however, on the ground of their mutual repugnance, it is compelled to recognise as true. We are thus taught the salutary lesson, that the capacity...horizon of our faith. And by a wonderful revelation, we arc thus, in the very consciousness of our inability to conceive aught above the relative and finite,... | |
| 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 - Education - 1853 - 832 pages
...of which, however, on the ground of their mutual repugnance, it is compelled to recognize as true. We are thus taught the salutary lesson, that the capacity...into the measure of existence ; and are warned from recognizing the domain of our knowledge as necessarily co-extensive with the horizon of our faith.... | |
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