This position is perhaps best expressed by Canon Gore:-- "It is contrary to his whole method to reveal his Godhead by any anticipations of natural knowledge.
And yet "the distinctive character of our times," he urges, "lies in the vast and constantly increasing part which is played by natural knowledge.
At present it seems to me, that those who are for giving to natural knowledge, as they call it, the chief place in the education of the majority of mankind, leave one important thing out of their account: the constitution of human nature.
William was interested in natural knowledge, and something of a humanist.
There is an abysmal difference in the amount of natural knowledge exhibited by any writing of the twelfth century, and the works of Albertus Magnus belonging say to the middle of the thirteenth.
They included not only poetry and eloquence, but also history, philosophy, natural knowledge, law and polity.
Much has yet to be learned, but, at present, natural knowledge affords no support to the notion that men have fallen from a higher to a lower state.
Lacking that rock-barrier of natural knowledge which we now possess, keen jurists and cultivated men were hurried on to deeds, the bare recital of which makes the blood run cold.
The British Association then, as a whole, faces physical nature on all sides, and pushes knowledge centrifugally outwards, the sum of its labours constituting what Fichte might call the sphere of natural knowledge.
We have here a body of men engaged in the pursuit of Natural Knowledge, but variously engaged.
We are persuaded the day will come, when it will be seen that the despair of scepticism has been misplaced, not only with regard to natural knowledge, but also in relation to the great problems of the intellectual and moral world.
For just as, in natural knowledge, the possible intellect is passive to the light of the active intellect, so too in prophetic knowledge the human intellect is passive to the enlightening of the Divine light.
Further, faith is to knowledge by grace, as the understanding of principles is to natural knowledge, since the articles of faith are the first principles of knowledge by grace, as was shown above (Q.
For this object he put aside, as of secondary importance, those scientific investigations which he loved so well, and in which he showed himself so competent to enlarge the boundaries of natural knowledge and to win fame.
This distinctive character of our own times lies in the vast and constantly increasing part which is played by natural knowledge.
But it is not easy to discover satisfactory evidence that the 'Novum Organum' had any direct beneficial influence on the advancement of natural knowledge.
Is proof that our reason is innate, or born with us, proof that it is ultimate or necessary or beyond the reach of improvement and development by the application of natural knowledge?
Some criticisms on 'The Principles of Natural Knowledge' show that difficulty has been found in apprehending durations as real stratifications of nature.
Since the publication of An Enquiry concerning the Principles of Natural Knowledge I have had the advantage of reading Mr C.
An Enquiry concerning the Principles of Natural Knowledge, Cambridge University Press, 1919.
This volume on 'the Concept of Nature' forms a companion book to my previous work An Enquiry concerning the Principles of Natural Knowledge.
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "natural knowledge" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
