The Works of Francis Bacon ...: Popular Ed., Based Upon the Complete Ed. of Spedding, Ellis, and Heath ...H.O. Houghton and Company, 1878 |
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... things , and to which he gives the name of Nature . Nature does nothing in vain and of things possible realises the best , but she does not act with conscious prevision . She is , so to speak , the instinct of the uni- verse . It is on ...
... things , and to which he gives the name of Nature . Nature does nothing in vain and of things possible realises the best , but she does not act with conscious prevision . She is , so to speak , the instinct of the uni- verse . It is on ...
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... things artificial as well as things natural are in reality produced not by Art but Nature . Our power is merely based upon our knowledge of the procedure which Nature follows . She is never really thwarted or controlled by our oper ...
... things artificial as well as things natural are in reality produced not by Art but Nature . Our power is merely based upon our knowledge of the procedure which Nature follows . She is never really thwarted or controlled by our oper ...
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... things to be considered , or rather two aspects of the same thing , one the phenomenon which Nature presents to the senses the other the inward mechanism and action , of which the phenomenon in question is not only the result but also ...
... things to be considered , or rather two aspects of the same thing , one the phenomenon which Nature presents to the senses the other the inward mechanism and action , of which the phenomenon in question is not only the result but also ...
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... things previously known : in the case of gunpowder , if its effects only had been de- scribed , they would have thought of some modification of the battering - ram or the catapult , and not of an ex- pansive vapour ; and so in the other ...
... things previously known : in the case of gunpowder , if its effects only had been de- scribed , they would have thought of some modification of the battering - ram or the catapult , and not of an ex- pansive vapour ; and so in the other ...
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... things ; also many things mean and sordid ; and lastly many things too subtle to be of any use . To this a threefold answer is to be given . In the first place , rare and notable things cannot be understood , much less new things ...
... things ; also many things mean and sordid ; and lastly many things too subtle to be of any use . To this a threefold answer is to be given . In the first place , rare and notable things cannot be understood , much less new things ...
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