The Pamphlet Collection of Sir Robert Stout: Volume 42
Deity not an object of immediate Contemplation
Deity not an object of immediate Contemplation.
"The Deity in not an object of immediate contemplation; as existing and in Himself, He is beyond our reach: we can know Him only mediately through His works, and are only warranted in assuming His existence as a certain kind of cause necessary to account for a certain state of things, of whose reality our faculties are supposed to inform us."
Sir William Hamilton.
"To speak of an Absolute and Infinite Person, is simply to use language to which, however true it may be in a superhuman sense, no mode of human thought can possibly attach itself."
Professor H. L. Mansel.