 | New Church gen. confer - 1868 - 602 pages
...apply the word goodness to God, if I do not mean by it the goodness of which I have some knowledge, but an incomprehensible attribute of an incomprehensible...different quality from that which I love and venerate (and which, if Mr. Mansel is to be believed, must in some important particulars be opposed to it),... | |
 | England - 1866 - 830 pages
...goodness. If in ascribing goodness to God I do not mean the goodness of which I have some knowledge, but an incomprehensible attribute of an incomprehensible...different quality from that which I love and venerate — and even must, if Mr Mansel is to be believed, be in some important particulars opposed to this... | |
 | 1865 - 826 pages
...charges Professor Mansell with logical consequences which that gentleman could never have contemplated. " To say that God's goodness may be different in kind...of phraseology, that God may possibly not be good ? To assert in words what we do not think in meaning, is as suitable a definition as can be given of... | |
 | John Stuart Mill - Philosophy - 1865 - 578 pages
...not mean what I mean by goodness ; if I do not mean the goodness of which I have some knowledge, but an incomprehensible attribute of an incomprehensible...different quality from that which I love and venerate — and even must, if Mr. Mansel is to be believed, be in some important particulars opposed to this... | |
 | Unitarianism - 1865 - 402 pages
...mean what I mean by goodness, — if I do not mean the goodness of which I have some knowledge, but an incomprehensible attribute of an incomprehensible...different quality from that which I love and venerate, — and even must, if Mr. Mansel is to be believed, be in some important particulars opposed to this,... | |
 | John Stuart Mill - Knowledge, Theory of - 1865 - 342 pages
...not mean what I mean by goodness ; if I do not mean the goodness of which I have some knowledge, but an incomprehensible attribute of an incomprehensible...different quality from that which I love and venerate — and even, must, if Mr. Mansel is to be believed, be in some important particulars opposed to this... | |
 | John Stuart Mill - 1865 - 578 pages
...not mean what I mean by goodness; if I do not mean the goodness of which I have some knowledge, but an incomprehensible attribute of an incomprehensible...totally different quality from that which I love and venerate—and even must, if Mr. Mansel is to be believed, be in some important particulars opposed... | |
 | John Stuart Mill - Knowledge, Theory of - 1865 - 332 pages
...and even must, if Mr. Mansel is to be believed, be in some important particulars opposed to this — what do I mean by calling it goodness ? and what reason have I for venerating it ? If I know nothing about what the attribute is, I cannot tell that it is a proper object of veneration.... | |
 | England - 1866 - 854 pages
...consistent with goodness is not consistent with infinite goodness. If in ascribing goodness to God I do not mean the goodness of which I have some knowledge,...different quality from that which I love and venerate — anil even must, if Mr. Mansel is to be believed, be in some important particulars opposed to this... | |
 | Alexander Robertson (of Dun Donnochy.) - Teleology - 1866 - 104 pages
...as greater in degree, we are neither philosophically nor morally entitled to affirm them at all. ... To say that God's goodness may be different in kind...of phraseology, that God may possibly not be good ? To assert in words what we do not think in meaning, is as suitable a definition as can be given of... | |
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If in ascribing goodness to God, I do not mean what I mean by goodness ; if I do not mean the goodness of which I have some knowledge, but an incomprehensible attribute of an incomprehensible substance, which, for aught I know, may be a totally different... 
