 | 1842 - Страниц: 622
...proceed on that simple, yet profound and noble, aphorism of Lord Bacon: "Man, as the minister an,l interpreter of nature, does and understands as much...permit him, and neither knows nor is capable of more." Alchemy laboured to establish certain suppositions : modern chemistry observes the order of nature,... | |
 | Francis Bacon, Basil Montagu - 1831 - Страниц: 478
...enjoyment, but of the common affairs and fortune of mankind, and of a complete power of action. For man as the minister and interpreter of nature does, and understands, as much as he has observed of the order, operation, and mind of nature ; and neither knows nor is able to do more.... | |
 | 1833 - Страниц: 480
...understanding," laid down the following rule by which to direct all future investigations : — " Man as the minister and interpreter of nature, does and...him, and neither knows nor is capable of more.||" No sooner was the Novum Organum perused and comprehended, than the learned arailed themselves of the... | |
 | Francis Bacon, Basil Montagu - 1831 - Страниц: 486
...enjoyment, but of the common affairs and fortune of mankind, and of a complete power of action. For man as the minister and interpreter of nature does, and understands, as much as he has observed of the order, operation, and mind of nature ; and neither knows nor is able to do more.... | |
 | Samuel Greatheed, Daniel Parken, Theophilus Williams, Josiah Conder, Thomas Price, Jonathan Edwards Ryland, Edwin Paxton Hood - 1838 - Страниц: 746
...Bacon thought thus — Man, the minister of na' ture, understands as much as his observations of it, either with ' regard to things or the mind, permit...him, and neither knows nor 'is capable of more.' The influence of this truth was early seen ; — first, in the system of Hobbes and Gassendi, by both of... | |
 | 1858 - Страниц: 690
...p. 117. Spinoza, Ibid., p. 125. Jacobi, Ibid., p. 597. Comtt, Syst. Phil. Pos., Tol. i, p. 7. "Man, as the minister and interpreter of nature, does and...him, and neither knows nor is capable of more."— Nov. Org., lib. I, Aph. I. Cf. Tnst. Magna. Distr. Op., vol. ix, p. 178. " The unassisted hand, and... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1841 - Страниц: 616
...enjoyment, hut of the common affairs and fortune of mankind, and of a complete power of action. For man, as the minister and interpreter of nature does and understands, as much as he h;is observed of the order, operation, and mind of nature; and neither knows nor is able to do more.... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1841 - Страниц: 616
...enjoyment, but of the common affairs and fortune of mankind, and of a complete power of action. For man, e thought it congruous to give your he has observed of the order, operation, and mind of nature; and neither knows nor is able to do more.... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1844 - Страниц: 348
...Interpretation of Nature and (he Empire of Man. 1. A >f"AN, as the minister and interpreter of JLVJ. nature, does and understands as much, as his observations...permit him, and neither knows nor is capable of more. 2. The unassisted hand, and the understanding left to itself, possess but little power. Effects are... | |
 | Samuel Tyler - 1844 - Страниц: 214
...theory of mind, that all our knowledge is founded on experience — that we understand as much as our observations on the order of nature, either with regard to things or the mind, permit, but do not knowmore. But this exposition does not exhaust the fullness of the proposition; for it speaks... | |
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MAN, as the minister and interpreter of nature, does and understands as much as his observations on the order of nature, either with regard to things or the mind, permit him, and neither knows nor is capable of more. 
