Lexicographical Neighbors of Agnosticisms
Literary usage of Agnosticisms
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Will to Believe: And Other Essays in Popular Philosophy by William James (1911)
"... and agnosticisms, are irrational because they are inadequate stimuli to man's
practical nature. I have now to justify the latter half of the thesis. ..."
2. My Diaries: Being a Personal Narrative of Events, 1888-1914 by Wilfrid Scawen Blunt (1921)
"... admirable epitaph of a Duke of Buckingham, which I cannot help transcribing
here, so suitable is it for the agnosticisms of our day. press Frederick. ..."
3. The Place of Christ in Modern Theology by Andrew Martin Fairbairn (1895)
"... and agnosticisms seem so reasonable. From the standpoint of an ordered universe
nothing seems ..."
4. James Martineau: A Biography and Study by Abraham Willard Jackson (1900)
"It will help us to see these two agnosticisms together. Hume finds the origin of
all our ideas in sensations. The organism receives impressions; ..."
5. The Romance of Preaching by Charles Silvester Horne (1914)
"A primrose in God's hands is text enough to shatter all our shallow agnosticisms,
and reward our honest quest for the Eternal. " Whither can I go from Thy ..."