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... kind of dictatorship in the sciences and taken upon them to lay down the law with such confidence , yet when from time to time they come to themselves again , they fall to complaints of the subtlety of nature , the hiding - places of ...
... kind of dictatorship in the sciences and taken upon them to lay down the law with such confidence , yet when from time to time they come to themselves again , they fall to complaints of the subtlety of nature , the hiding - places of ...
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... of Nature ) is a kind of logic ; though the difference between it and the ordi- nary logic is great ; indeed immense . For the ordinary logic professes to contrive and prepare helps and guards for C 4 PLAN OF THE WORK . 23.
... of Nature ) is a kind of logic ; though the difference between it and the ordi- nary logic is great ; indeed immense . For the ordinary logic professes to contrive and prepare helps and guards for C 4 PLAN OF THE WORK . 23.
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... kind , and such a natural history as may serve for a foundation to build philosophy upon . For a good method of demonstration or form of interpreting nature may keep the mind from going astray or stumbling , but it is not any excellence ...
... kind , and such a natural history as may serve for a foundation to build philosophy upon . For a good method of demonstration or form of interpreting nature may keep the mind from going astray or stumbling , but it is not any excellence ...
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... kind . I do not speak of those examples which are joined to the several precepts and rules by way of illustration ( for of these I have given plenty in the second part of the work ) ; but I mean actual types and models , by which the ...
... kind . I do not speak of those examples which are joined to the several precepts and rules by way of illustration ( for of these I have given plenty in the second part of the work ) ; but I mean actual types and models , by which the ...
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... kind of method and discretion in their madness ? Yet just so it is that men proceed in matters intellectual , — with just the same kind of mad effort and useless combination of forces , —when they hope great things either from the num ...
... kind of method and discretion in their madness ? Yet just so it is that men proceed in matters intellectual , — with just the same kind of mad effort and useless combination of forces , —when they hope great things either from the num ...
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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.