Filled up the void that was left. Nature at length had a Soul."
Sir J. Herschel. Essays, etc., p. 737.
"Wär ein verständiger Sinn auch mir doch beschieden gewesen!
Aber es täuschte mich trügrischer Pfad, hieher mich, dann dorthin
Lockend. Nun bin ich bejahrt und doch unbefriedigt von allem
Forschen. Denn wo ich den Geist hinwende, da löst sich mir alles
Auf in Eins und Dasselbe: da alles Seyende, allzeit
Allwärts angezogen, in ähnliche, eine Natur tritt."
Jacobi. Werke, Vorrede zu David Hume, p. 103.
"Throughout all future time, as now, the human mind may occupy itself, not only with ascertained phenomena and their relations, but also with that unascertained something which phenomena and their relations imply. Hence if knowledge cannot monopolize consciousness—if it must always continue possible for the mind to dwell upon that which transcends knowledge; then there can never cease to be a place for something of the nature of Religion; since Religion under all its forms is distinguished from everything else in this, that its subject matter is that which passes the sphere of experience." Herbert Spencer. First Principles, p. 17.