| Noah Knowles Davis - 1895 - 236 páginas
...are indicated in aphorisms 1-10. These the closing passage of Dist. Op. anticipates, saying: "Man, 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.... | |
| 1892 - 604 páginas
...His light and heat, Makes His sun on us to shine: All our blessings are divine ! " —0. Wesley. (j3) Man, as the minister and interpreter of nature, does and understands as much aa his observations on the order of nature, either witli regard to things or the mind, permit him,... | |
| Franklin Verzelius Newton Painter - 1899 - 822 páginas
...of which, including the first, are here given as indicating the character of the whole work : — " I. Man, as the minister and interpreter of nature,...permit him, and neither knows nor is capable of more. " IX. The sole cause and root of almost every defect in the sciences is this ; that whilst we falsely... | |
| Francis Bacon - 1899 - 540 páginas
...begun to be master of himself. APHORISMS BOOK I On the Interpretation of Nature and the Empire of Man MAN, as the minister and interpreter of nature, does...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 produced... | |
| Washington Academy of Sciences (Washington, D.C.) - 1900 - 798 páginas
...essay. Rendered into the more trenchant and vigorous language of the present, this aphorism reads : Man, as the minister and interpreter of nature, does...mind, permit him, and neither knows nor is capable of more.1 'Translation edited by Joseph Devey and published in Bohn's Philosophical Library under the... | |
| Francis Bacon - 1899 - 526 páginas
...be master of himself. APHORISMS BOOK I On the Interpretation of Nature and the Empire of Man M AN, as the minister and interpreter of nature, does and...understands as much as his observations on the order ^r-TrTe unassisted hand and the understanding left to itself possess but little power. Effects are... | |
| Francis Bacon - 1900 - 542 páginas
...begun to be master of himself. APHORlSMS BOOK I On the Interpretation of Nature and the Empire of Man MAN, as the minister and interpreter of nature, does...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 produced... | |
| Benjamin Ward Richardson, Mrs. George Martin - 1901 - 498 páginas
...work, work, work, on his own account with nature and with no other competitor ; assured that — " Man, as the minister and interpreter of nature, does...permit him, and neither knows nor is capable of more." Printed by Hazill, IVatson, <S- Vinry, Ld., London and Ayltsbitiy. COUNTWAY I.IBRAHV HC MKK7 . 1.E.S6.... | |
| John Arthur Thomson - 1903 - 582 páginas
...the consistency of our scientific mood. Is not the whole point expressed in Bacon's aphorism ? — " Man, as the minister and interpreter of nature, does...permit him, and neither knows nor is capable of more." lt is difficult, perhaps, to say what the word " understand " means in this aphorism, but if it mean... | |
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