Him, if we may venture upon the expression ; — who can raise his intellect into some accordance with the Creative Intellect ; and that, not once only, nor by few steps, but through an indefinite gradation of discoveries, more and more comprehensive,... The Plurality of Worlds ... - Page 226by William Whewell - 1854 - 307 lehteFull view - About this book
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...slight, towards a Divine Insight ; then, BO far as intellect alone, of which alone we are here speaking, can make man a worthy object of all the vast magnificence...can hardly shrink from believing that he is so."§ Again : The earth is a scene of MORAL TRIAL. Man is subject to a moral law ; and this moral law is... | |
| 1855 - 846 lehte
...slight, towards a Divine Insight ; then, so far as intellect alone, of which alone we are here speaking, can make man a worthy object of all the vast magnificence...we can hardly shrink from believing that he is so.$ Again: The earth is a scene of MORAL TRIAL. Alan is subject to a moral law ; and this moral law is... | |
| William Whewell - 1854 - 330 lehte
...with the Creative Intellect ; and that, not once only, nor by few steps, but through an indefinite gradation of discoveries, more and more comprehensive,...a work made, and laid out of hand, but a field of his present activity and energy. And such a view cannot fail to give an aspect of dignity to all that... | |
| 1854 - 604 lehte
...Insight — then, so far as intellect alone (and we are here speaking of intellect alone) can make a man a worthy object of all the vast magnificence of...we can hardly shrink from believing that he is so. We shall conclude with the following impressive observations : The workmanship which is employed on... | |
| 1854 - 760 lehte
...Insight ; then, so far as intellect alone, of which alone we are here speaking, can make man a worth; object of all the vast magnificence of creative power,...can hardly shrink from believing that he is so."§ Again : The earth is a scene of MORAL TRIAL. Man is subject to a moral law ; and this moral law is... | |
| 1854 - 768 lehte
...slight, towards a Divine Insight; then, so far as intellect alone, of which alone we are here speaking, can make man a worthy object of all the vast magnificence of creative power, we can baraly shriiik from believing that he U so."§ Again : The earth is a scene of MORAL TRIAL. Man is... | |
| William Whewell - 1855 - 404 lehte
...with the Creative Intellect ; and that, not once only, nor by few steps, but through an indefinite gradation of discoveries, more and more comprehensive,...a work made, and laid out of hand, but a field of his present activity and energy. And such a view cannot fail to give an aspect of dignity to all that... | |
| William Whewell - 1855 - 468 lehte
...God has constituted time and space as results of His own existence in any other way, we cannot know. intellect alone) can make Man a worthy object of all...a work made, and laid out of hand, but a field of his present activity and energy. And such a view cannot fail to give an aspect of dignity to all that... | |
| Samuel Warren - 1855 - 526 lehte
...Ibid. p. 360 (Professor Owen). J Ibid. p. 362. intellect alone, of which alone we are here speaking, can make man a worthy object of all the vast magnificence...we can hardly shrink from believing that he is so." * Again. The earth is a scene of MORAL TRIAL. Man is subject to a moral law ; and this moral law is... | |
| William Whewell - 2001 - 534 lehte
...with the Creative Intellect; and that, not once only, nor by a few steps, but through an indefinite gradation of discoveries, more and more comprehensive,...we can hardly shrink from believing that he is so. (253) And so with a brief concluding chapter about the future, and the need of man as a social being... | |
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