 | 1842 - 622 páginas
...proceed on that simple, yet profound and noble, aphorism of Lord Bacon: "Man, as the minister an,l interpreter of nature, does and understands as much...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 páginas
...enjoyment, but of the common affairs and fortune of mankind, and of a complete power of action. For 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.... | |
 | Francis Bacon, Basil Montagu - 1831 - 486 páginas
...enjoyment, but of the common affairs and fortune of mankind, and of a complete power of action. For 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.... | |
 | Samuel Greatheed, Daniel Parken, Theophilus Williams, Josiah Conder, Thomas Price, Jonathan Edwards Ryland, Edwin Paxton Hood - 1838 - 746 páginas
...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... | |
 | 1858 - 690 páginas
...Phil., p. 117. Spinoza, Ibid., p. 125. Jacobi, Ibid., p. 597. Comtt, Syst. Phil. Pos., Tol. i, p. 7. "Man, as the minister and interpreter of nature, does...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 - 1841 - 616 páginas
...enjoyment, hut of the common affairs and fortune of mankind, and of a complete power of action. For man, as the minister and interpreter of nature does and understands, as much as he h;is observed of the order, operation, and mind of nature; and neither knows nor is able to do more.... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1841 - 616 páginas
...enjoyment, but of the common affairs and fortune of mankind, and of a complete power of action. For 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.... | |
 | Francis Bacon, Basil Montagu - 1844 - 614 páginas
...PART, DIGESTED IN APHORISMS. APHORISMS ON THE INTERPRETATION OF NATURE AND THE EMPIRE OF MAN. 1. MAW, as the minister and interpreter of nature, does and...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 - 1844 - 348 páginas
...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 páginas
...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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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. 
