 | Margaret Fison - 1859 - 242 páginas
...deductive & priori science began to pass away. " Man," writes Bacon, in some of his grand aphorisms, " as the minister and interpreter of nature, does and...permit him, and neither knows nor is capable of more." " The sole cause and root of almost every defect in the Sciences is this, that while we falsely admire... | |
 | Francis Bacon, Basil Montagu - 1859 - 628 páginas
...OF MAN. MAN, as the minister and interpreter of nature, does and understands as much as his obseron the order of nature, either with regard to things...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... | |
 | John Scott - 1860 - 282 páginas
...faith, by sometimes voting with the Southern States, am not eligible." CHAPTER II. FEDERAL CONVENTION. Man, as the minister and interpreter of Nature, does...permit him and neither knows nor is capable of more. The subtlety of nature is far bej'ond that of sense or of the understanding: so that the specious meditations,... | |
 | John Scott - 1860 - 278 páginas
...faith, by sometimes voting with the Southern States, am not eligible." CHAPTER II. FEDERAL CONVENTION. Man, as the minister and interpreter of Nature, does...permit him^ and neither knows nor is capable of more. The subtlety of nature is far beyond that of sense or of the understanding: so that the specious meditations,... | |
 | William Nelson Pendleton - 1860 - 362 páginas
...celebrated "Novum Organum," and substantially contained in the first aphorism of that immortal work. "Man, as the minister and interpreter of nature, does,...his observations on the order of nature, either with respect to things or the mind, permit him, and neither knows nor is capable of more." Now, that this... | |
 | Dugald Stewart - 1860 - 390 páginas
...natural causes, for nature can only be subdued by being obeyed. — Bacon. P. 26, n., c. 1, 1. 19. — Man, as the minister and interpreter of nature, does and understands as much as he has observed of the order of nature, whether in the ordinary course of things, or by the application... | |
 | James Buchanan - 1864 - 650 páginas
...Organum," and which may be justly described as the foundationstone of modern Inductive Science — " Man, as the minister and interpreter of nature, does...as much as his observations on the order of nature, cither with regard to things or the mind, permit him ; and neither knows nor is capable of more."*... | |
 | Edwin Paxton Hood - 1865 - 376 páginas
...Man, as the minister and interpreter of Nature, does and understands as much, as his own observation on the order of Nature, either with regard to things...permit him, and neither knows, nor is capable of more." It was in fact to tell Man that he could only observe the observable, and only see with or by his eyes.... | |
 | William Greenough Thayer Shedd - 1867 - 456 páginas
...opening of one of the most sagacious and suggestive of modern treatises in philosophy reads as follows: "Man, as the minister and interpreter of nature, does...observations on the order of nature, either with regard to matter or to mind, permit him, and neither knows nor is capable of more."1 In this dictum of Lord Bacon,... | |
 | Nathaniel Holmes - 1867 - 670 páginas
...is rather like an enchanted glass, full of superstition and imposture."i But in truth and reality, h man, as the minister and interpreter of nature, does, and understands as much as he has observed of the order, operation, and mind of nature ; and neither knows nor is able to do more."... | |
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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. 
