He must entertain its problems; and the personages of his story, if they do not directly advocate or oppose agnostic views, must show in their lives either confirmation or disproof of agnostic principles.
On the other hand, to champion a myth is to make one's self ridiculous, and of being ridiculous the agnostichas a consuming fear.
The aristocracy of culture describe it as a philosophic analysis of human character and motives, with an agnostic bias on the analyst's part.
The agnostic no longer holds to what is behind him, nor knows what lies before, so he contents himself with feeling the ground beneath his feet.
And, as a matter of fact, art already shows the effects of the agnostic influence.
Many of those who speak thus are agnostic or generally unsympathetic to official religion.
Definite and detailed dues of this kind they did not predicate of the babe unborn; regarding him in that agnostic and opportunist light in which Mr. Browdie regarded the hypothetical child of Miss Squeers.
Health, one may say, is God; and no agnostic has any right to claim His acquaintance.
He is an absolute wizard in the appreciation of atmospheres and the opening of vistas; but his answers are more agnostic than his questions.
A fair account of the Agnosticposition is then given, after which it is severely observed that "the better feelings of man contradict these sophisms.
The Atheist and theAgnostic confess their inability to fathom the universe and profess doubts as to the ability of others.
Agnostic gentleman who founds a workmen's institute and delivers Freethought lectures in it.
A business man who had recently made a study of agnostic literature, had become involved in certain complications, which resulted in a quarrel with his wife.
John Bull is infuriated by the red cloak of Atheism, so the Agnostic dons a brown cloak with a red lining.
The Agnosticis a timid Atheist, and the Atheist a courageous Agnostic.
Mr. Harrison says "the Agnostic is one who protests against any dogma respecting Creation at all, and who deliberately takes his stand on ignorance.
But the Agnostic teaching extends itself soon from the Sixth Commandment to the Seventh, and M.
If one is only agnostic with reference to the existence of God, he is simply agnostic on the subject of immortality.
Though thoroughly agnostic still, yet I could quietly work and wait.
I do not mean to intimate that a patriotic agnostic would be any more reluctant than a believer to die for his country.
And in what part of the Bible shall we find a parallel to the following sentence, from an Agnostic newspaper: Freedom of thought, freedom of speech, freedom of action are helps to the children of men in their search for wisdom.
The Pagan, the Buddhist, the Mohammedan, and the Agnostic do not fear death nearly so much as do the Christians.
Gautama was a protestant and a reformer, not an agnostic or skeptic.
Darwin and Virchow are representatives of thisagnostic position; they held that we know nothing, and can know nothing, about the origin of the first organisms.
A number of distinguished modern scientists maintain thisagnostic attitude; they are more or less convinced that the origin of life is a natural process, but believe we have not as yet the means to explain it.
I remember amusing myself by writing my own answers to the questions; but I soon found that they were very broken and agnostic answers.
If I am asked, as a purely intellectual question, why I believe in Christianity, I can only answer, "For the same reason that an intelligent agnostic disbelieves in Christianity.
He has always left himself free to doubt his gods; but (unlike the agnostic of to-day) free also to believe in them.
But the ordinary agnostichas got his facts all wrong.
The doubts of the agnosticwere only the dogmas of the monist.
One great agnostic asked why Nature was not beautiful enough, and why it was hard to be free.
I turned the next page in my agnostic manual, and my brain turned up-side down.
Joy ought to be expansive; but for the agnostic it must be contracted, it must cling to one corner of the world.
Grief ought to be a concentration; but for the agnosticits desolation is spread through an unthinkable eternity.
I was a pagan at the age of twelve, and a complete agnostic by the age of sixteen; and I cannot understand any one passing the age of seventeen without having asked himself so simple a question.
But if I mildly pointed out that one of men's universal customs was to have an altar, then my agnostic teachers turned clean round and told me that men had always been in darkness and the superstitions of savages.
Should he admit this much of belief, he has abandoned somewhat of his agnostic position; for it would be easy to show that in even uttering the pronoun "I" he has committed himself to the belief in the unknowable.
So far we have considered the general bearing of agnostic and theistic theories on our relations to nature; but if we are to test these theories fully by scientific considerations, we must look a little more into details.
Even Agnostic Evolution cannot wholly divest itself of the idea of mind in nature.
Yet all men would scoff at the agnostic who on this account should express unbelief in physical science.
This being understood, the sentence is a fair expression of the dilemma in which the agnostic and the materialist find themselves.
Agnostic and monistic evolution, which hold the spontaneous origination and differentiation of things out of primitive matter and force, self-existent or fortuitous.
But Haeckel, like other evolutionists of the monistic and agnostic schools, goes far beyond this.
It becomes, therefore, very important to ascertain to what extent we are justified in adopting the agnostic evolution in its relation to life and man on scientific grounds.
Thus the agnostic philosophy, if it be once accepted as true, seriously raises the question whether life is worth living.
But the agnostic position is at once a reproof and a challenge to all who do not hold it.
So far as the conduct of life goes, the morality of one who accepts the agnostic position with regard to revelation and the unseen universe differs in no respect from the code taken under the protection of the modern forms of religion.
As Huxley held it, it was rigidly limited within the possibilities afforded by the agnostic attitude.
That I take to be theagnostic faith, which, if a man keep whole and undefiled, he shall not be ashamed to look the universe in the face, whatever the future may have in store for him.
The scientific theologian admits the agnostic principle, however widely his results may differ from those reached by the majority of agnostics.
It gets rid, for example, of the wholeagnostic controversy, by refusing to entertain the hypothesis of trans-empirical reality at all.
It joins friendly hands with the agnostic part of kantism, with contemporary agnosticism, and with idealism generally.
Rationalist Press; and the agnostic poseur in turn is very funny.
He has returned to the agnosticstandpoint of the {71} Cyrenaic school.
As compared with Kant, Hegel is distinguished above all by his complete abjuration of the agnostic standpoint in epistemology.
It is said that infidelity is rife among those who are educated to cure our bodily ailments, that the agnostic habit of mind is frequent in this profession.
We have not yet seen agnosticmissionary societies or the like.
It is no paradox to say that even a morally earnest agnostic believes in the Atonement; at any rate he believes in the all-essential truth without which there would never have been such a thing as a doctrine of Atonement.
The infinite being of God is utterly incomprehensible to a finite mind, and in regard to it the most devout saint is as much an agnostic as the most convinced materialist.
No doubt there are some readers of these pages who profess themselves agnostic or indifferent with regard to the question of immortality, and I am not going to argue with them.
The agnostic by research has proved that he knows nothing, and there he stops; there may or may not be.
Some say that agnostic means atheist; it does not.
In this moment the agnostic is anagnostic no longer, for he has seen heaven, whether he believes it hereafter or not.
The agnostic does not deny God or the possibility of eternity; Genesis is not a legend to be laughed at; soul is not to be disputed.
To the agnostic Nature is a solemn image set up before the eye; the veiled Isis, soulless, or endowed with a spirit unseen and therefore unknown.
The best of the ancient Stoics did so, and many a modern Agnostic is doing so to-day.
The eclectic theory was abandoned, and the Review became an agnostic and radical organ under the management of its second editor, John Morley.
She went far towards accepting the boldest speculations of the agnostic science of the time, but she modified it again and again to meet the needs of her own broader mind and heart.
All thatagnostic science and the evolution philosophy had to teach, George Eliot accepted, its doctrine of descent, its new psychology, and its theories of society and human destiny.
This power of personality lies at the basis of all genuine literature, teaching faith in the soul, faith in a providential ordering of the world, and overturning all agnostic theories about realism and environment.
It was in this way she became the truest interpreter of the evolution philosophy, the best apostle of the ethics taught by agnostic science.
The Agnostic and the Mystic Herndon's agnosticism left no lasting impression on the mind of Lincoln.
