The Works of Francis Bacon, Volumen4Longmans, Green, Reader, and Dyer, 1858 |
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... most part of familiar occur- rence , they straightway touch the understanding and fill the imagination ; whereas interpretations on the other hand , being 18 gathered here and there from very various and widely E 2 NOVUM ORGANUM . 51.
... most part of familiar occur- rence , they straightway touch the understanding and fill the imagination ; whereas interpretations on the other hand , being 18 gathered here and there from very various and widely E 2 NOVUM ORGANUM . 51.
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... touching the infinite divisibility of lines , from the same inability of thought to stop . But this inability interferes more mischiev- ously in the discovery of causes : for although the most general principles in nature ought to be ...
... touching the infinite divisibility of lines , from the same inability of thought to stop . But this inability interferes more mischiev- ously in the discovery of causes : for although the most general principles in nature ought to be ...
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... touching the experiment only , and the experiment touching the point in nature and the thing itself . LI . The human understanding is of its own nature prone to abstractions and gives a substance and reality to things which are fleeting ...
... touching the experiment only , and the experiment touching the point in nature and the thing itself . LI . The human understanding is of its own nature prone to abstractions and gives a substance and reality to things which are fleeting ...
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... touching the external signs which show that they are unsound ; and finally something touching the causes of such great infelicity and of such lasting and general agreement in error ; that so the access to truth may be made less ...
... touching the external signs which show that they are unsound ; and finally something touching the causes of such great infelicity and of such lasting and general agreement in error ; that so the access to truth may be made less ...
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... touch upon , I will speak more largely , when , having performed these expiations and purgings of the mind , I come to set forth the true way for the interpretation of nature . LXX . But the best demonstration by far is experience , if ...
... touch upon , I will speak more largely , when , having performed these expiations and purgings of the mind , I come to set forth the true way for the interpretation of nature . LXX . But the best demonstration by far is experience , if ...
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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.