 | Edwin Paxton Hood - 1854 - 444 pages
...only possible object of knowledge and of positive thought, thought necessarily supposes conditions. To think is to condition, and conditional limitation...atmosphere in which he floats, and by which alone he may be supported, so the mind cannot transcend that sphere of limitation within and through which exclusively... | |
 | John Williams - 1854 - 234 pages
...possible object 36 of knowledge and of positive thought ; thought necessarily supposes conditions. To think is to condition, and conditional limitation...atmosphere in which he floats, and by which alone he may be supported, so the mind cannot transcend that sphere of limitation, within and through which... | |
 | Eleazar Lord - 1859 - 168 pages
...only possible object of knowledge and of positive thought — thought necessarily supposes conditions. To think is to condition, and conditional limitation...the fundamental law of the possibility of thought. . . . The mind can not transcend that sphere of limitation, within and through which exclusively the... | |
 | Sir William Hamilton - 1860 - 548 pages
...only possible object of knowledge and of positive thought — thought necessarily supposes conditions. To think is to condition ; and conditional limitation...eagle out-soar the atmosphere in which he floats, and bj which alone he may be supported ; so the mind cannot transcend that sphere of limitation, within... | |
 | John Frederick Denison Maurice - 1860 - 332 pages
...inclined to vote a man a lunatic who supposed that " the greyhound could outstrip its own shadow, or " the eagle outsoar the atmosphere in which he floats, " and by which alone he can be supported" (Discussions, p. 14). All of us were ready to say with him, " How " indeed it could... | |
 | Sir William Hamilton - 1861 - 626 pages
...only possible object of knowledge and of positive thought — thought necessarily supposes conditions. To think is to condition ; and conditional limitation...through which exclusively the possibility of thought is realized. Thought is only of the Conditioned; because, as we have said, to think is simply to condition.... | |
 | Sir William Hamilton - 1861 - 584 pages
...only possible object of knowledge and of positive thought— thought necessarily supposes conditions. To think is to condition; and conditional limitation...through which exclusively the possibility of thought is realized. Thought is only of the Conditioned; because, as we have said, to think is simply to condition.... | |
 | 1861 - 824 pages
...only possible object of knowledge and of positive thought — thought necessarily supposes conditions. To think is to condition ; and conditional limitation...atmosphere in which he floats, and by which alone he may be supported ; so the mind cannot transcend that sphere of limitation, within and through which... | |
 | Sir William Hamilton - 1861 - 816 pages
...only possible object of knowledge and of positive thought — thought necessarily supposes conditions. To think is to condition; and conditional limitation...fundamental law of the possibility of thought. For, as the grayhound can not outstrip his shadow, nor (by a more appropriate simile) the eagle outsoar the atmosphere... | |
 | 1861 - 716 pages
...only possible object of knowledge and of positive thought, thought necessarily supposes conditions. To think is to condition ; and conditional limitation...the fundamental law of the possibility of thought. . . . The conditioned is the mean between two extremes — two inconditionates, exclusive of each other,... | |
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To think is to condition ; and conditional limitation is the fundamental law of the possibility of thought. For, as the greyhound cannot outstrip his shadow, nor (by a more appropriate simile) the eagle outsoar the atmosphere in which he floats, and by... 
