 In my opinion, profound minds are the most likely to think lightly of the resources of human reason; and it is the pert superficial thinker who is generally strongest in every kind of unbelief. The deep philosopher sees chains of causes and effects so...  American Monthly Knickerbocker - Page 971840Full view - About this book
 | Harriet Martineau - Great Britain - 1865 - 512 pages
...reason; and it is the pert superficial thinker who is generally strongest in every kind of unbelief. The deep philosopher sees chains of causes and effects...natural miracles, as it were, have been brought to light .... that the physical inquirer is seldom disposed to assert confidently on any abstruse subjects belonging... | |
 | Sir Humphry Davy - Fishing - 1870 - 334 pages
...human reason; it is the pert superficial thinker who is generally strongest in every kind of unbelief. The deep philosopher sees chains of causes and effects...stones from meteors in the atmosphere, the disarming a thiuider-cloud by a metallic point, the production of fire from ice by a metal white as silver, and... | |
 | James McCosh - Providence and government of God - 1874 - 572 pages
...every kind of unbelief. The deep philosopher sees chains of causes and effects BO wonderfully ami . strangely linked together, that he is usually the...decide upon the impossibility of any two series of evuits being independent of each other ; and in science, so many natural miracles, as it were, have... | |
 | Harriet Martineau - Great Britain - 1877 - 576 pages
...reason ; and it is the pert superficial thinker who is generally strongest in every kind of unbelief. The deep philosopher sees chains of causes and effects...so wonderfully and strangely linked together, that ho is usually the last person to decide upon the impossibility of any two series of events being independent... | |
 | James McCosh - Providence and government of God - 1880 - 572 pages
...philosopher sees chains of causes mid effects so wonderfully and strangely linked together, that lie is usually the last person to decide upon the impossibility...stones from meteors in the atmosphere, the disarming a thunder-cloud by a metallic point, the production of fire from ice by a metal white as silver, and... | |
 | Joseph William Reynolds - Miracles - 1881 - 482 pages
...reason, and it is the most superficial thinker who is generally strongest in every kind of unbelief. The deep philosopher sees chains of causes and effects...series of events being independent of each other." — DAVY, Salmonia. " History without God is as Polyphemus without his eye." THE position of Spinoza,... | |
 | Frank McAlpine - American prose literature - 1886 - 456 pages
...reason; and it is the pert superficial thinker who is generally strongest in every kind of unbelief. The deep philosopher sees chains of causes and effects...the impossibility of any two series of events being made independent of each other; and in science so many natural miracles, as it were, have been brought... | |
 | Ainsworth Rand Spofford, Charles Gibbon - Literature - 1893 - 484 pages
...reason ; and it is the pert, superficial thinker who is generally strongest in every kind of unbelief. The deep philosopher sees chains of causes and effects...from meteors in the atmosphere, the disarming of a thunder-cloud by a metallic point, the production of fire from ice by a metal as white as silver, and... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray (IV), Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - English literature - 1828 - 638 pages
...reason; and it is the pert, superficial thinker who is generally strongest in every kind of unbelief. The deep philosopher sees chains of causes and effects...natural miracles, as it were, have been brought to light,—such as the fall of stones from meteors in the atmosphere, the disarming a thunder cloud by... | |
 | David Knight - Biography & Autobiography - 1998 - 236 pages
...indicate the nature of the mind within it. Davy took a less sceptical view of omens and superstitions: The deep philosopher sees chains of causes and effects...any two series of events being independent of each other.'63 Nevertheless, he did explain the basis of some superstitions, while feeling unable to account... | |
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