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... Fire with its orb is brought in , to make up the square with the other three which the sense perceives . Hence also the ratio of density of the so - called elements is arbitrarily fixed at ten to one . And so on of other dreams . And ...
... Fire with its orb is brought in , to make up the square with the other three which the sense perceives . Hence also the ratio of density of the so - called elements is arbitrarily fixed at ten to one . And so on of other dreams . And ...
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... fire , the intellect is altogether slow and unfit , unless it be forced thereto by severe laws and overruling authority . XLVIII . The human understanding is unquiet ; it cannot stop or rest , and still presses onward , but in vain ...
... fire , the intellect is altogether slow and unfit , unless it be forced thereto by severe laws and overruling authority . XLVIII . The human understanding is unquiet ; it cannot stop or rest , and still presses onward , but in vain ...
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... Fire , and like fictions which owe their origin to false and idle theories . And this class of idols is more easily expelled , because to get rid of them it is only necessary that all theories should be steadily rejected and dis- missed ...
... Fire , and like fictions which owe their origin to false and idle theories . And this class of idols is more easily expelled , because to get rid of them it is only necessary that all theories should be steadily rejected and dis- missed ...
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... fire , and remoulded into solids ; have all of them some taste of the natural philosopher , some savour of the nature of things , and experience , and bodies ; whereas in the physics of Aris- totle you hear hardly anything but the words ...
... fire , and remoulded into solids ; have all of them some taste of the natural philosopher , some savour of the nature of things , and experience , and bodies ; whereas in the physics of Aris- totle you hear hardly anything but the words ...
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... fire are quite different in kind , -lest men should imagine that by the operations of fire anything like the works of nature can be educed and formed . Hence the notion that composition only is the work of man , and mixture of none but ...
... fire are quite different in kind , -lest men should imagine that by the operations of fire anything like the works of nature can be educed and formed . Hence the notion that composition only is the work of man , and mixture of none but ...
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Página 47 - Human knowledge and human power meet in one, for where the cause is not known the effect cannot be produced. Nature to be commanded must be obeyed, and that which in contemplation is as the cause is in operation as the rule.
Página 93 - Those who have handled sciences have been either men of experiment or men of dogmas. The men of experiment are like the ant ; they only collect and use : the reasoners resemble spiders, who make cobwebs out of their own substance. But the bee takes a middle course ; it gathers its material from the flowers of the garden and of the field, but transforms and digests it by a power of its own.
Página 499 - All this is true, See. if time stood still ; which contrariwise moveth so round, that a froward retention of custom is as turbulent a thing as an innovation -, and they that reverence too much old times, are but a scorn to the new.