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. The Works of Francis Bacon - Página 47por Francis Bacon - 1858Vista completa - Acerca de este libro
| Hundred greatest men - 1885 - 530 páginas
...guide it, so the instruments of the mind supply either suggestioas for the understanding or cautions. "Human knowledge and human power meet in one; for where the cause is not known the efl'cct cannot be produced. Nature to be commanded must be obeyed ; and that which in contemplation... | |
| 1905 - 958 páginas
...understanding left to itself can effect much. It is by instruments and helps that the work is clone, which are as much wanted for the understanding as...be produced. Nature to be commanded must be obeyed 2 ; and that which in contemplation is as the cause is in operation as the rule. IV. Towards the effecting... | |
| Benjamin Rand - 1908 - 768 páginas
...or in thought of the course of nature: beyond this he neither knows anything nor can do anything. n Neither the naked hand nor the understanding left...contemplation is as the cause is in operation as the rule. * From The Philosophical Works of Francis Bacon, edited by Robert Leslie Ellis and James Spedding,... | |
| 1908 - 768 páginas
...guide it, so the instruments of the mind supply either suggestions for the understanding or cautions. m Human knowledge and human power meet in one; for where...contemplation is as the cause is in operation as the rule. * From The Philosophical Works of Francis Bacon, edited by Robert Leslie Ellis and James Spedding,... | |
| William Allan Neilson - 1914 - 508 páginas
...and selfdenying study of it. The kingdom of man, the "New Atlantis," " is to be founded on knowledge. "Human knowledge and human power meet in one; for...contemplation is as the cause, is in operation as the rule." Observe nature in order that you may use nature, thus converting it into the habitation, instrument,... | |
| Benjamin Rand - 1924 - 924 páginas
...JAMES SPEDDING APHORISMS CONCERNING THE INTERPRETATION OF NATURE AND THE KINGDOM OF MAN "THE IDOLS" i MAN, being the servant and interpreter of nature,...contemplation is as the cause is in operation as the rule. * From The Philosophical Works of Francis Bacon, edited by Robert Leslie Ellis and James Spedding,... | |
| Youlan Feng - 1924 - 290 páginas
...distinguished from the false not by its being a clear idea, but by its being able to work. He said : " That which in contemplation is as the cause is in operation as the rule." 3 " What in operation is most useful, that in knowledge is most true."* Thus Bacon's method is to start... | |
| 1920 - 448 páginas
...therewith the mastery of all her powers. Natura parendo vincitur — Nature is conquered by obedience; " and that which in contemplation is as the cause is in operation as the rule." This end can only be attained by freeing the mind from its false prejudices, especially its habit of... | |
| Francis Bacon - 1928 - 558 páginas
...it, so the instruments of the mind supply either suggestions for the understanding or cautions. 279 in. Human knowledge and human power meet in one; for...contemplation is as the cause is in operation as the rule. IT. Towards the effecting of works, all that man can do is to put together or put asunder natural bodies.... | |
| Francis Bacon - 1928 - 500 páginas
...instruments of the mind supply either suggestions for the understanding or cautions. 279 + in. VHuman knowledge and human power meet in one; for where the...contemplation is as the cause is in operation as the rule. iv. 1 " Towards the effecting of works, all that man can do is to put together or put asunder natural bodies.... | |
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