 | Harry Thurston Peck - Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1898 - 1150 pages
...make the mind of man "more cautious in meddling with things exceeding its comprehension, and disposed to stop when it is at the utmost extent of its tether." This purpose led him to that thorough investigation of the constitution of the human mind, resulting... | |
 | Thomas Henry Huxley - 1902 - 678 pages
...he of use to prevail with the busy mind of man to be more cautious in meddling with things exceeding its comprehension : to stop when it is at the utmost...tether ; and to sit down in quiet ignorance of those thing? which, upon examination, are proved to be beyond the reach of our capacities. We should not... | |
 | Robert Chambers - Authors, English - 1902 - 860 pages
...be of use to prevail with the busy mind of man to be more cautious in meddling with things exceeding lenting sway Bend the reluctant planets to a quiet ignorance of those things which upon examination are found to be beyond the reach of our capacities.... | |
 | Robert Chambers - American literature - 1902 - 864 pages
...be of use to prevail with the busy mind of man to be more cautious in meddling with things exceeding ed as being 'according a quiet ignorance of those things which upon examination are found to be beyond the reach of our capacities.... | |
 | John Locke, Mary Whiton Calkins - Human understanding - 1905 - 424 pages
...of use to prevail with the busy mind of man to be . more cautious in meddling with things exceeding its comprehension, to stop when it is at the utmost extent of its tether, and to sit down in a quiet ignorance of those things which, upon examination, are found to be beyond the reach of our... | |
 | John Locke - Knowledge, Theory of - 1905 - 382 pages
...be of use to prevail with the busy mind of man to be more cautious in meddling with things exceeding its comprehension, to stop when it is at the utmost extent of its tether, and to sit down in a quiet ignorance of those things which, upon examination, are found to be beyond the reach of our... | |
 | Arthur Kenyon Rogers - Philosophy - 1907 - 536 pages
...be of use to prevail with the busy mind of man to be more cautious in meddling with things exceeding its comprehension ; to stop when it is at the utmost extent of its tether; and to sit down in a quiet ignorance of those things which, upon examination, are found to be beyond the reach of our... | |
 | Arthur Kenyon Rogers - Philosophy - 1907 - 540 pages
...exceeding its comprehension; to stop when it is at the utmost extent of its tether; and to sit down in a quiet ignorance of those things which, upon examination,...are found to be beyond the reach of our capacities. We should not then perhaps be so forward, out of an affectation of a universal knowledge, to raise... | |
 | Thomas Henry Huxley - 1909 - 234 pages
...be of use to prevail with the busy mind of man to be more cautious in meddling with things exceeding its comprehension : to stop when it is at the utmost...ignorance of those things which, upon examination, are proved to be beyond the reach of our capacities. We should not then, perhaps, be so forward, out of... | |
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I suppose it may be of use to prevail with the busy mind of man, to be more Cautious in meddling with things exceeding its comprehension ; to stop when it is at the Utmost extent of its tether ; and to sit down in a quiet ignorance of those things, which,... 
