The Physical and Metaphysical Works of Lord Bacon ...Bell & Daldy, 1872 - 567 pages |
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... physics , and kept the human mind stationary for two thousand years , hardly too much praise can be conferred upon the philosopher who not only pointed out the gap but supplied the materials for its obliteration . The ardency of his ...
... physics , and kept the human mind stationary for two thousand years , hardly too much praise can be conferred upon the philosopher who not only pointed out the gap but supplied the materials for its obliteration . The ardency of his ...
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... Physics and Metaphysics . Physics relate to the Investigation of Efficient Causes and Matter ; Metaphysics to that of Final Causes and the Form . Division of Physics into the Sciences of the Principles of Things , the Structure of ...
... Physics and Metaphysics . Physics relate to the Investigation of Efficient Causes and Matter ; Metaphysics to that of Final Causes and the Form . Division of Physics into the Sciences of the Principles of Things , the Structure of ...
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... physics , we cannot see how theology can be entirely divorced from natural philosophy . Physicists are too apt to consider the universe as eternally existing , without contemplating it in its finite aspect as a series of existences to ...
... physics , we cannot see how theology can be entirely divorced from natural philosophy . Physicists are too apt to consider the universe as eternally existing , without contemplating it in its finite aspect as a series of existences to ...
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... physics , delivered in a certain sublimity of discourse , by such as aim at being admired for standing on the pinnacles of the sciences ; but what we mean is , without ambition , to design some general science , for the reception of ...
... physics , delivered in a certain sublimity of discourse , by such as aim at being admired for standing on the pinnacles of the sciences ; but what we mean is , without ambition , to design some general science , for the reception of ...
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... physics , and as their logical consideration rather accommodates them to argumentation than existence , it is proper that this point be not quite deserted , as being of considerable dignity and use , so as to have some place in the ...
... physics , and as their logical consideration rather accommodates them to argumentation than existence , it is proper that this point be not quite deserted , as being of considerable dignity and use , so as to have some place in the ...
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Page 418 - The idols of the tribe are inherent in human nature and the very tribe or race of man ; for man's sense is falsely asserted to be the standard of things; on the contrary, all the perceptions both of the senses and the mind bear reference to man and not to the universe, and the human mind resembles those uneven mirrors which impart their own properties to different objects, from which rays are emitted and distort and disfigure them.
Page 53 - But this is that which will indeed dignify and exalt knowledge, if contemplation and action may be more nearly and straitly conjoined and united together than they have been; a conjunction like unto that of the two highest planets. Saturn, the planet of rest and contemplation, and Jupiter, the planet of civil society and action...
Page 174 - formed man of the dust of the earth and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life and man became a living soul.
Page 43 - Here therefore [is] the first distemper of learning, when men study words and not matter : whereof though I have represented an example of late times, yet it hath been and will be secundum majus et minus in all time.
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Page 95 - For although they had knowledge of the antipodes, "Nosque ubi primus equis Oriens afflavit anhelis, Illic sera rubens accendit lumina Vesper...