 | John F. Haught - Religion - 2008 - 142 pages
...mind's capacity to understand and know reality. "With me the horrid doubt always arises," he admits, "whether the convictions of man's mind, which has...monkey's mind, if there are any convictions in such a mind?"8 So evolutionary biology, the scientific naturalist's final court of appeal, is not enough.... | |
 | 1889 - 584 pages
...he writes later, after having again confessed to "an inward conviction that the universe is not the result of chance ": " But then with me the horrid...mind, if there are any convictions in such a mind ? " Thus the last and strongest theistic proof fails, not because of any lack in its stringent validity... | |
 | 1928 - 832 pages
...developed from the mind of the lower animals, are of any value or at all trustworthy. Would anyone trust in the convictions of a monkey's mind, if there are any convictions in such a mind?" Such was Burbank's guide in science and religion. Who knows what Burbank and countless others like... | |
 | Ethical culture movement - 1926 - 420 pages
...arises whether the convictions of man's mind . . . are of any valve or at all trustworthy. Would anyone trust in the convictions of a monkey's mind, if there are any convictions in such a mind? If Darwin's premise were sound, his inference would be inescapable : the convictions of man's mind,... | |
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But then with me the horrid doubt always arises whether the convictions of man's mind, which has been developed from the mind of the lower animals, are of any value or at all trustworthy. Would any one trust in the convictions of a monkey's mind, if there... 
