| 1842 - 622 pages
...profound and noble, aphorism of Lord Bacon: "Man, as the minister an,l interpreter of nature, does and understands as much as his observations on the...or the mind, permit him, and neither knows nor is capable of more." Alchemy laboured to establish certain suppositions : modern chemistry observes the... | |
| Francis Bacon, Basil Montagu - Law - 1831 - 478 pages
...Interpretation of Nature and the. Empire of Man. 1. MAN, as the minister and interpreter of nature, does and understands as much, as his observations on the...or the mind, permit him, and neither knows nor is capable of more. 2. The unassisted hand, and the understanding left to itself, possess but little power.... | |
| 1833 - 480 pages
...which to direct all future investigations : — " Man as the minister and interpreter of nature, does and understands as much, as his observations on the...or the mind, permit him, and neither knows nor is capable of more.||" No sooner was the Novum Organum perused and comprehended, than the learned arailed... | |
| Francis Bacon, Basil Montagu - 1831 - 486 pages
...Interpretation of Nature and the Empire of Man. 1. MAN, as the minister and interpreter of nature, does and understands as much, as his observations on the...or the mind, permit him, and neither knows nor is capable of more. 2. The unassisted hand, and the understanding left to itself, possess but little power.... | |
| Samuel Greatheed, Daniel Parken, Theophilus Williams, Josiah Conder, Thomas Price, Jonathan Edwards Ryland, Edwin Paxton Hood - 1838 - 746 pages
...Bacon thought thus — Man, the minister of na' ture, understands as much as his observations of it, either with ' regard to things or the mind, permit him, and neither knows nor 'is capable of more.' The influence of this truth was early seen ; — first, in the system of Hobbes and... | |
| Francis Bacon - 1841 - 616 pages
...INTERPRETATION OF NATURE AND THE EMPIRE OF MAN. 1. MAN, as the minister and interpreter of nature, does and understands as much as his observations on the...or the mind, permit him, and neither knows nor is capable of more. 2. The unassisted hand, and the understanding left to itself, possess but little power.... | |
| Francis Bacon - 1841 - 616 pages
...INTERPRETATION .OF NATURE AND THE EMPIRE OF MAN. 1. MAN, as the minister and interpreter of nature, does the mean time, I can with comfort assure you, that...could not have made choice of a subject more befitting capable of more. 2. The unassisted hand, and the understanding left to itself, possess but little power.... | |
| Methodist Church - 1858 - 690 pages
...p. 597. Comtt, Syst. Phil. Pos., Tol. i, p. 7. "Man, as the minister and interpreter of nature, does and understands as much as his observations on the...or the mind, permit him, and neither knows nor is capable of more."— Nov. Org., lib. I, Aph. I. Cf. Tnst. Magna. Distr. Op., vol. ix, p. 178. " The... | |
| Francis Bacon - Induction (Logic) - 1844 - 348 pages
...of Nature and (he Empire of Man. 1. A >f"AN, as the minister and interpreter of JLVJ. nature, does and understands as much, as his observations on the...or the mind, permit him, and neither knows nor is capable of more. 2. The unassisted hand, and the understanding left to itself, possess but little power.... | |
| Samuel Tyler - Philosophy - 1844 - 214 pages
...theory of mind, that all our knowledge is founded on experience — that we understand as much as our observations on the order of nature, either with regard to things or the mind, permit, but do not knowmore. But this exposition does not exhaust the fullness of the proposition; for it speaks... | |
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