 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, John Murray, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero - 1895 - 634 páginas
...ourselves, Darwin was quite aware of ' the extreme difficulty, or rather impossibility, of conceiving this immense and wonderful universe, including man with...futurity, as the result of blind chance or necessity.' He tells us further that, ' when thus reflecting, I feel compelled to look to a First Cause having... | |
 | John Michels - 1925 - 960 páginas
...belief to a condition of agnosticism, albeit with times, even in his later life, when he felt himself "compelled to look to a First Cause having an intelligent...mind in some degree analogous to that of man," and in which he deserved "to be called a theist."34 But is it so certain that evolution was the sole cause... | |
 | Paul Carus - 1928 - 838 páginas
...Cause" conceivable? He had long felt "the extreme difficulty or rather impossibility of conceiving this immense and wonderful universe, including man with...futurity, as the result of blind chance or necessity." Such reflections at one time did indeed incline him strongly "to look to a First Cause having an intelligent... | |
 | Henry Truro Bray - 1888 - 440 páginas
...Thinking Monon, the Universal Intelligence, the Universal Will. " When thus reflecting," says Darwin, " I feel compelled to look to a First Cause having an...intelligent mind in some degree analogous to that of man." In this universal Monon, the body and soul of the universe must be united. Here and here only can we... | |
 | 1888 - 898 páginas
...extreme difficulty, or rather impossibility," of conceiving the universe as not being the work of " a First Cause having an intelligent mind in some degree analogous to that of man," f is driven back into agnosticism by the question, " Can the mind of man, which has, as I fully believe,... | |
 | 1888 - 938 páginas
...which we everywhere meet with, J the extreme difficulty, or rather impossibility, of conceiving this immense and wonderful universe, including man with his capacity of looking far backward and far into futurity, as the result of blind chance or necessity," * the fact that " the... | |
 | 1889 - 656 páginas
...the universe is not the result of chance"— or, as he expresses the same idea on another occasion, " I feel compelled to look to a First Cause, having an intelligent mind in some degree analogous to man. But, then, with me the horrid doubt always arises whether the convictions of a man's mind, which... | |
 | 1889 - 882 páginas
...existence of God " in what he terms "the extreme difficulty, or rather impossibility, of conceiving this immense and wonderful universe, including man with his capacity of looking far backward and far into futurity, as the result of blind chance or necessity. When thus reflecting, I... | |
 | John Addington Symonds - 1890 - 348 páginas
...argument drawn from reason was more cogent with his mind. He could not bring himself to regard "this immense and wonderful universe, including man, with...backwards and far into futurity, as the result of * P. 307. t P. 307. t P. 307, "For myself," etc. P. 308, " But I had gradually," down to "had some... | |
 | 1891 - 220 páginas
...the work of chance, and found himself compelled by a rational necessity to infer the existence of " a First Cause, having an intelligent mind in some degree analogous to that of man," 1 the doubt at once suggested itself, " Can the mind of man, which has, as I fully believe, been developed... | |
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Another source of conviction in the existence of God, connected with the reason, and not with the feelings, impresses me as having much more weight. This follows from the extreme difficulty or rather impossibility of conceiving this immense and wonderful... 
