 | England - 1866 - 830 pages
...can still be in a manner present ; that a series of feelings, the infinitely greater part of which is past or future, can be gathered up, as it were,...into a single present conception, accompanied by a bdlief in reality. I think by far the wisest thing we can do is to accept the inexplicable fact, without... | |
 | John Stuart Mill - Knowledge, Theory of - 1865 - 342 pages
...can still be, in a manner, present ; that a series of feelings, the infinitely greater part of which is past or future, can be gathered up, as it were,...single present conception, accompanied by a belief of reality. I think, by far the wisest thing we can do, is to accept the inexplicable fact, without... | |
 | John Stuart Mill - Philosophy - 1865 - 578 pages
...can still be, in a manner, present : that a series of feelings, the infinitely greater part of which is past or future, can be gathered up, as it were,...single present conception, accompanied by a belief of reality. I think, by far the wisest thing we can do, is to accept the inexplicable fact, without... | |
 | John Stuart Mill - Knowledge, Theory of - 1865 - 332 pages
...can still be, in a manner, present ; that a series of feelings, the infinitely greater part of which is past or future, can be gathered up, as it were,...single present conception, accompanied by a belief of reality. I think, by far the wisest thing we can do, is to accept the inexplicable fact, without... | |
 | David Masson - Philosophy - 1865 - 432 pages
...still be, in a manner, " present — that a series of feelings the infinitely " greater part of which is past or future, can be " gathered up, as it were, into a single present 1 Pp. 212, 213. " conception, accompanied by a belief of reality. " I think by far the wisest thing... | |
 | England - 1866 - 854 pages
...existence, can still be in a manner present; that a series of feelings, the infinitely greater part of which is past or future, can be gathered up, as it were,...inexplicable fact, without any theory of how it takes place ; and when we are obliged to speak of it in terms which assume a theory, to use ths.m with a reservation,... | |
 | Scotland - 1866 - 826 pages
...existence, can still be in a manner present; that a scries of feelings, the infinitely greater part of which is past or future, can be gathered up, as it were,...conception, accompanied by a belief in reality. I think by fur the wisest thing we can do is to accept the inexplicable fact, without any theory of how it takes... | |
 | Congregationalism - 1866 - 650 pages
...inexplicability, at which, as Sir W. Hamilton observed, we inevitably arrive when we reach ultimate facts I think, by far the wisest thing we can do, is to...inexplicable fact, without any theory of how it takes place." * Tliis is granting all we demand. It concedes the truth of the Hainiltonian philosophy on this point,... | |
 | David Masson - Philosophy - 1866 - 334 pages
...can still be, in a manner, present — that a series of feelings the infinitely greater part of which is past or future, can be gathered up, as it were,...single present conception, accompanied by a belief of reality. I think by far the wisest thing we can do is to accept the inexplicable fact, without any... | |
 | James McCosh - 1866 - 424 pages
...can still be in " a manner present: that a series of feelings, the infinitely " greater part of which is past or future, can be gathered " up, as it were, into a single present conception, accom" panied by a belief of reality. I think, by far the wisest " thing we can do, is to accept the... | |
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The true incomprehensibility perhaps is, that something which has ceased, or is not yet in existence, can still be, in a manner, present — that a series of feelings the infinitely greater part of which is past or future, can be gathered up, as it were,... 
