 | Joseph Parker - Holy Spirit - 1875 - 438 pages
...absolutely nothing — can be known of such agency. " The mind of man," says he, " may be compared to a musical instrument with a certain range of notes, beyond which in both directions we have an infinitude of silence. The phenomena of matter and force lie within our intellectual range,... | |
 | Monday Club (Boston). - Sermons, American - 1879 - 432 pages
...far as they reach we will, at all hazards, push our inquiries. But behind and above and around all, the real mystery of the universe lies unsolved, and...as we are concerned, is incapable of solution." But why incapable of solution ? Why not already solved, so far as we are concerned, in this " simple, unequivocal,... | |
 | Joseph Parker - Religion and science - 1876 - 42 pages
...investigation and rare English, says, as an exposition of his views: " The mind of man may be compared to a musical instrument with a certain range of notes, beyond which, in both directions, we have an infinitude of silence. The phenomena of matter and force lie within our intellectual range,... | |
 | James Thompson Bixby - Religion and science - 1876 - 252 pages
...reach we will, at all events, push our inquiries, but behind and above and around the real mystery lies unsolved, and as far as we are concerned is incapable of solution." Now, the defender of religion would not deny that there are mysteries insoluble both to religion and... | |
 | Joseph William Reynolds - 1878 - 552 pages
...molecules ? Who or what made them run into organic forms ? He has no answer. "His mind may be compared to a musical instrument with a certain range of notes, beyond which, in both directions, we have an infinitude of silence." l The same fact is put in other words,— "After all, what do we... | |
 | Frederic Beecher Perkins - 1879 - 714 pages
...day to solve, "the problem of the universe," I must shake my head in doubt. I compare the mind of man to a musical instrument, with a certain range of notes,...far as we are concerned, is incapable of solution. While refreshing; my mind on these old themes I am struck by the poverty of my own thought ; appearing... | |
 | Malcolm Guthrie - Ethics, Evolutionary - 1879 - 292 pages
...to solve, ' the problem of the universe,' I must shake my head in doubt. I compare the mind of man to a musical instrument with a certain range of notes,...far as we are concerned, is incapable of solution." I understand this to be a repudiation of the formula of Evolution as a sufficient solution of the problem... | |
 | American literature - 1879 - 812 pages
...to solve, ' the problem of the universe,' I must shake my head in doubt. I compare the mind of man to a musical instrument with a certain range of notes,...far as we are concerned, is incapable of solution. While refreshing my mind on these old themes I am struck by the poverty of my own thought ; appearing... | |
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The mind of man may be compared to a musical instrument with a certain range of notes, beyond which in both directions we have an infinitude of silence. 
