 | 1855 - 550 pàgines
...assured that this universe is without an intelligent and omnipotent Father ? " The wonder turns on the process by which a man could grow to the immense intelligence that could compass this end. What ages and what lights are requisite for this attainment ? This intelligence... | |
 | George Jacob Holyoake - 1858 - 206 pàgines
...it with ponderous and imposing eloquence. We quote Foster's argument as given by Pearson : — ' ' The wonder then turns on the great process by which a man could grow to the immense intelligence which can know that there is no God. What ages and what lights are requisite for this attainment !... | |
 | Edwin Paxton Hood - 1858 - 276 pàgines
...friend. Or to cite another celebrated passage from the same Essay:— " The wonder then turns upon the great process by which a man could grow to the immense intelligence which can know that there is no God.—What age and what lights are requisite for this attainment ?... | |
 | William Jordan Unwin - 1862 - 300 pàgines
...and cry out at the approach of a diminutive reptile. But, indeed, it is heroism no longer, if he know that there is no God. The wonder then turns on the...which a man could grow to the immense intelligence which can know that there is no God. What ages and what lights are requisite for THIS attainment !... | |
 | Thomas Pearson - 1863 - 344 pàgines
...illustrated by Dr. Chalmers. -I- " The wonder then turns," says the original minded author of the Essays, " on the great process, by which a man could grow to the immense intelligence which can know that there is no God. What ages and what lights are requisite for THIS attainment !... | |
 | Edwin Paxton Hood - 1865 - 376 pàgines
...cite another celebrated passage from the same Essay : — impossible Tile wonder, then, tum8 uPon tiie great process by which a man could grow to the immense intelligence which can know that there is no God. What age and what lights are requisite for this attainment! This... | |
 | 1877 - 590 pàgines
...expense of all reason and argument." 7. John Foster, the original-minded author of the Essays, says— " The wonder then turns on the great process by which a man could grow to the immense intelligence which can know that there is n0 God. What ages and what lights are requisite for this attainment! This... | |
 | 1878 - 604 pàgines
...said to be one of the most daring beings in creation. But, indeed, it is heroism no longer if he know that there is no God. The wonder then turns on the...which a man could grow to the immense intelligence which can know that there is no God. What ages and what lights are requisite for THIS attainment. This... | |
 | Robert Flint - 1879 - 600 pàgines
...argument he would never have imagined that it could be thus refuted by inversion. "The wonder," he says, "turns on the great process by which a man could grow to the immense intelligence which can know that there is a God. What powers, what lights are requisite for this attainment ! This... | |
 | Robert Flint - 1879 - 580 pàgines
...argument he would never have imagined that it could be thus refuted by inversion. " The wonder," he says, "turns on the great process by which a man could grow to the immense intelligence which can know that there is a God. What powers, what lights are requisite for this attainment ! This... | |
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The wonder then turns on the great process, by which a man could grow to the immense intelligence that can know there is no God. What ages and what lights are requisite for this attainment! This intelligence involves the very attributes of Divinity, while... 
