 Just so it is in the mind ; would you have a man reason well, you must use him to it betimes, exercise his mind in observing the connection of ideas and following them in train. Nothing does this better than mathematics, which therefore I think should...  Easy Introduction to Mathematics - Σελίδα xxviτων Charles Butler - 1814Πλήρης προβολή - Σχετικά με αυτό το βιβλίο
 | John Locke - 1831 - 458 σελίδες
...Nothing does this better than mathematics ; ( which should therefore be taught all those, who have the time and opportunity ; not so much to make them mathematicians, as to make them reasonable creatures ; for though we all call ourselves so, because we are born to it, yet nature gives us but the seeds... | |
 | English literature - 1831 - 536 σελίδες
...Nothing does this better than mathematics ; which should therefore be taught all those, who have the time and opportunity ; not so much to make them mathematicians, as to make them reasonable creatures ; for though we all call ourselves so, because we are born to it, yet nature gives us but the seeds... | |
 | Samuel Read Hall - 1832 - 294 σελίδες
...following them in train. Nothing does this better than Mathematics, which should, therefore, be taught all who have time and opportunity ; not so much, to make them mathematicians, as to make them reasonablercreatures. Converse much, says Dr. Watts, with those friends and those parts of learning... | |
 | John Locke - 1833 - 156 σελίδες
...does this better than mathematics, which, therefore, I think should be taught all those who have the time and opportunity ; not so much to make them mathematicians, as to make them reasonable creatures ; for though we all call ourselves so, because D we are born to it, if we please ; yet we may truly... | |
 | 1837 - 664 σελίδες
...exercise the mental faculties, the time thus employed in the education of youth would be well bestowed, not so much to make them mathematicians as to make them reasonable creatures." She' has, however, proved that this was not her sole object : for, having reasoned on and established... | |
 | Charles Hodge, Lyman Hotchkiss Atwater - 1844 - 668 σελίδες
...does this better than mathematics, which therefore I think should be taught all those who have the time and opportunity, not so much to make them mathematicians as to make them reasonable creatures : for though we call ourselves so, because we are born to it if we please, yet we may truly say nature... | |
 | John Locke - 1844 - 272 σελίδες
...does this better than mathematics, which therefore I think should be taught all those who have the time and opportunity, not so much to make them mathematicians, as to make them reasonable creatures ; for though we all call ourselves so, because we are born to it if we please, yet we may truly say... | |
 | James W. Kavanagh - 1846 - 304 σελίδες
...are indispensably necessary in the promotion of mental culture. Hence Locke says — " Mathematics should be taught all those who have time and opportunity...make them mathematicians as to make them reasonable creatnres."t And while the pure mathematics thus aid in the formation of the soundest intellectual... | |
 | 1847 - 456 σελίδες
...does thia better than mathematics, which therefore I think should be taught all those who have the time and opportunity ; not so much to make them mathematicians, as to make them reasonable creatures : for though we all call ourselves so because we are born to it if we please, yet we truly say nature... | |
 | 1849 - 510 σελίδες
...does this better than mathematics, which, therefore, I think should be taught all those who have the time and opportunity; not so much to make them mathematicians as to make them reasonable creatures." Similar importance is attached to the study of metaphysics by that scarcely less distinguished modern... | |
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