Physical and Metaphysical Works: Including the Advancement of Learning and Novum OrganumBell & Daldy, 1868 - 567 pages |
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... true , there is no other course left but with better assistance to begin the work anew , and raise or re- build the sciences , arts , and all human knowledge from a firm and solid basis . This may at first seem an infinite scheme ...
... true , there is no other course left but with better assistance to begin the work anew , and raise or re- build the sciences , arts , and all human knowledge from a firm and solid basis . This may at first seem an infinite scheme ...
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... true inquirers ; whilst none of them duly conversed with experience and things themselves . Others again , who commit themselves to mechanical experience , yet make their experiments at random , without any method of inquiry . And the ...
... true inquirers ; whilst none of them duly conversed with experience and things themselves . Others again , who commit themselves to mechanical experience , yet make their experiments at random , without any method of inquiry . And the ...
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... true and genuine humiliation of mind . Those who before us applied themselves to the discovery of arts , having just glanced upon things , examples , and experiments ; immediately , as if invention was but a kind of contemplation ...
... true and genuine humiliation of mind . Those who before us applied themselves to the discovery of arts , having just glanced upon things , examples , and experiments ; immediately , as if invention was but a kind of contemplation ...
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... true ends of knowledge , and that they endeavour not after it for curiosity , contention , or the sake of despising others , nor yet for profit , reputation , power , or any such inferior con- sideration , but solely for the occasions ...
... true ends of knowledge , and that they endeavour not after it for curiosity , contention , or the sake of despising others , nor yet for profit , reputation , power , or any such inferior con- sideration , but solely for the occasions ...
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... true helps of the intellectual faculties , so as to raise and enlarge the powers of the mind ; and , as far as the condition of humanity allows , to fit it to conquer the difficulties and obscurities of nature . The thing we mean , is a ...
... true helps of the intellectual faculties , so as to raise and enlarge the powers of the mind ; and , as far as the condition of humanity allows , to fit it to conquer the difficulties and obscurities of nature . The thing we mean , is a ...
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