| Harold Arthur Prichard - Knowledge, Theory of - 1909 - 386 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 bo beyond the reach of our... | |
| John Grier Hibben - Enlightenment - 1910 - 334 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... | |
| Richard Sporbert - God - 1910 - 94 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... | |
| Gerhard Richard Lomer - Education - 1910 - 108 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 things which, upon examination, are found to be beyond the reach of our capacities."... | |
| Gerhard Richard Lomer - Education - 1910 - 106 pages
...comprehension, to stop when it is at the utmost extent of its tether, and to sit down in a quiet ignorance of things which, upon examination, are found to be beyond the reach of our capacities." It was this same task that Kant set himself to do, and he carried his investigation much further and much... | |
| John Pickett Turner - Idealism - 1910 - 148 pages
...of use to prevail with the busy mind of man to b» more cautious in meddling with things exceeding its comprehension; to stop when it is at the utmost extent of its tether; to sit down in quiet ignorance of those things which, upon examination, are found to be beyond the... | |
| Louis Compton Miall - Biology - 1911 - 166 pages
...have no consciousness. Into speculations like these we shall not venture, being content, like Locke, " to sit down in quiet ignorance of those things which upon examination are proved to be beyond the reach of our capacities." We shall merely note here and there facts ascertained... | |
| Burnett Hillman Streeter - Religion - 1912 - 560 pages
...hopes " 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 capacities."... | |
| Borden Parker Bowne - 1912 - 464 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 in a quiet ignorance of those things which upon examination are found to be beyond the reach of our... | |
| |