 MAN, as the minister and interpreter of nature, does and understands as much, as his observations on the order of nature, either with regard to things or the mind, permit him, and neither knows nor is capable of more.  The Works of Alexander Pope - Σελίδα 50των Alexander Pope - 1889 - 10 σελίδεςΠλήρης προβολή - Σχετικά με αυτό το βιβλίο
 | 1842 - 622 σελίδες
...simple, yet 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...permit him, and neither knows nor is capable of more." Alchemy laboured to establish certain suppositions : modern chemistry observes the order of nature,... | |
 | Francis Bacon, Basil Montagu - 1831 - 478 σελίδες
...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...permit him, and neither knows nor is capable of more. 2. The unassisted hand, and the understanding left to itself, possess but little power. Effects are... | |
 | 1833 - 480 σελίδες
...by which to direct all future investigations : — " Man as the minister and interpreter of nature, does and understands as much, as his observations...him, and neither knows nor is capable of more.||" No sooner was the Novum Organum perused and comprehended, than the learned arailed themselves of the... | |
 | Francis Bacon, Basil Montagu - 1831 - 486 σελίδες
...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...permit him, and neither knows nor is capable of more. 2. The unassisted hand, and the understanding left to itself, possess but little power. Effects are... | |
 | Samuel Greatheed, Daniel Parken, Theophilus Williams, Josiah Conder, Thomas Price, Jonathan Edwards Ryland, Edwin Paxton Hood - 1838 - 746 σελίδες
...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 Gassendi, by both of... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1841 - 616 σελίδες
...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...permit him, and neither knows nor is capable of more. 2. The unassisted hand, and the understanding left to itself, possess but little power. Effects are... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1841 - 616 σελίδες
...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...permit him, and neither knows nor is capable of more. 2. The unassisted hand, and the understanding left to itself, possess but little power. Effects are... | |
 | 1858 - 690 σελίδες
...Ibid., 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...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 unassisted hand, and... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1844 - 348 σελίδες
...Interpretation 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...permit him, and neither knows nor is capable of more. 2. The unassisted hand, and the understanding left to itself, possess but little power. Effects are... | |
 | Samuel Tyler - 1844 - 214 σελίδες
...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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