 ... from the nature of the human mind, time is necessary for the full comprehension and perfection of great ideas ; and that the highest and most wonderful truths, though communicated to the world once for all by inspired teachers, could not be comprehended...  The Quarterly Review - Page 412edited by - 1846Full view - About this book
 | Matthew Arnold - Christianity - 1892 - 192 pages
...nature of the human mind, time is necessary for the full comprehension and perfection of great ideas. The highest and most wonderful truths, though communicated to the world once for all by inspired teachers, H could not be comprehended all at once by the recipients ; but, as admitted and transmitted by minds... | |
 | Methodist Church - 1891 - 1042 pages
...extended dominion ; that, from the nature of the human mind, time is necessary for the full comprehensioti and perfection of great ideas ; and that the highest...comprehended all at once by the recipients, but, as being received and transmitted by minds not inspired, and through media which were human, have required... | |
 | Matthew Arnold - 1904 - 472 pages
...nature of the human mind, time is necessary for the full comprehension and perfection of great ideas. The highest and most wonderful truths, though communicated...comprehended all at once by the recipients ; but, as admitted and transmitted by minds not inspired, and through media which were human, have required only... | |
 | Matthew Arnold - Christianity - 1906 - 194 pages
...nature of the human mind, time is necessary for the full comprehension and perfection of great ideas. The highest and most wonderful truths, though communicated...comprehended all at once by the recipients ; but, as admitted and transmitted by minds not inspired, and through media which were human, have required only... | |
 | W. J. Williams - 1906 - 328 pages
...prehension and perfection of great ideas. The " highest and most wonderful truths, though com" municated to the world once for all by inspired " teachers,...comprehended all at once-^" by the recipients; but, as admitted and trans" mitted by minds not inspired, and through media " which were human, have required... | |
 | 1906 - 832 pages
...once for ali by inspired teachers, could not be comprehended at once by thè recipiente, but, as being received and transmitted by minds not inspired and through media which were human, bave required only thè longer lime and deeper thought for their full elucidation » . la cosa rappresentata,... | |
 | William Paterson Paterson - Authority - 1912 - 464 pages
...' Time is necessary,' says Newman, ' for the full comprehension and perfection of great ideas ; and the highest and most wonderful truths, though communicated...be comprehended all at once by the recipients, but have required longer time and deeper thought for their full elucidation.' To this process, it is added,... | |
 | Theology - 1913 - 742 pages
...the intellect and heart"; it is in the nature of the human mind that "time is necessary for the full comprehension and perfection of great ideas and that...comprehended all at once by the recipients .... but have required only the longer time and deeper thought for their full elucidation." Thus it is not essential... | |
 | 1918 - 942 pages
...wide or extended dominion; that, from the nature of the human mind, time is necessary for the full comprehension and perfection of great ideas; and that...comprehended all at once by the recipients, but, as being received and by minds not inspired and through media which were human, have required only the... | |
 | Jaroslav Pelikan - Religion - 1991 - 420 pages
...unacceptable: it was a universal principle, applicable to Christianity no less than to any other truth, that "the highest and most wonderful truths, though...be comprehended all at once by the recipients, but . . . have required only the longer time and deeper thought for their full elucidation." That implied... | |
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