...again, has had the effect of fixing errors rather than disclosing truth. There remains but one course for the recovery of a sound and healthy condition,...itself be from the very outset not left to take its own covrf?, la't guided at every step; and the business be done as if by machinery. Certainly if in things...

...0. II, 52). "Starting directly from the simple sensuous perception " (I cite Bacon), the mind must " be from the very outset not left to take its own course,...step; and the business be done as if by machinery" (N. 0., Pref.). Such a method "leaves but little to the acuteness and strength of wits, but places...

...cleared away, so that the entire work may start afresh. In this new start, the understanding itself must be " from the very outset not left to take its own...step ; and the business be done as if by machinery. "" In this new start, the understanding must first go to experience, which is the foundation of all...

...wrong, and our knowledge will "be augmented almost automatically. 'The mind itself,' Bacon demanded, 'be from the very outset not left to take its own course, but guided at every step; and the pQ \ business be done as by machinery.' If this means a restriction and delimitation of the mind's...

...technology, a progressive enterprise, ever marching to new triumphs. What is needed, in short, is that: the mind itself be from the very outset not left to...step, and the business be done as if by machinery. [ 1 ] And he believes he has discovered such a method. This Baconian program seems close to what Cedye...

...must not be allowed to go its own way, says Bacon in the Preface to the work, so it is necessary that "the mind itself be from the very outset not left...step; and the business be done as if by machinery." To know nature, treat it mechanically; but then your mind must behave mechanically as well. René Descartes...

...cave'. To remedy this situation Bacon provided his elaborate programme and method on the assumption that 'the mind itself be from the very outset not left to take its course, but guided at every step, and the business be done as if by machinery'.77 The co-ordination...

...claim to having discovered infallible methods for guiding the mind in this interpretation, so that 'the mind itself be from the very outset not left...step; and the business be done as if by machinery' (l960, p. 34l. Likewise, the great nineteenth century philosopher and historian of science, William...

...Bacon remained suspicious of the human mind. If it was to achieve dominion over nature, it must be "guided at every step, and the business be done as if by machinery" (47). The price to be paid for dominion over nature is the subjugation of the mind to method and the...

...remains but one course for the recovery of a sound and healthy condition—namely that the entire work of understanding be commenced afresh, and the mind itself...to take its own course, but guided at every step." 44 The start ing -point according to Bacon was the experience before every person's eyes, with a technique...