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" 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 recognizing the domain of our knowledge as necessarily co-extensive with the horizon of our faith... "
Examination of the Principles of the Scoto-Oxonian Philosophy - Page 9
by M. P. W. Bolton - 1861 - 68 pages
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Evangelical Magazine and Missionary Chronicle, Volume 32

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...
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Elements of Psychology: Included in a Critical Examination of Locke's Essay ...

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....
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The Methodist Quarterly Review, Volume 43

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...
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Elements of Psychology: Included in a Critical Examination of Locke's Essay ...

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."*...
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New Englander and Yale Review, Volume 21

Edward Royall Tyler, William Lathrop Kingsley, George Park Fisher, Timothy Dwight - United States - 1862 - 914 pages
...Morality, therefore we cannot think it; the principles of contradiction and excluded middle teach us the salutary lesson, that the capacity of thought...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....
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The Universalist Quarterly and General Review, Volumes 15-16

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....
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Man Primeval, Or, The Constitution and Primitive Condition of the Human ...

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,...
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Discussions on Philosophy and Literature, Education and University Reform ...

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,...
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The New quarterly review, and digest of current literature, Volume 7

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...
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Discussions on Philosophy and Literature, Education and University Reform ...

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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