 | Y. Masih - Philosophy - 1999 - 606 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 quite ignorance of those things, which, upon examination, are found to be beyond reach of our capacities."... | |
 | Beat Affentranger - Literary Criticism - 2000 - 194 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 which, upon examination, are found to be beyond the reach of our capacities... | |
 | Roy Sorensen - Philosophy - 2001 - 214 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...are found to be beyond the reach of our capacities. (Locke 1690: i. 28) Showing that a debated statement is borderline is a standard technique of dissolving... | |
 | John Stuart Mill - Business & Economics - 2002 - 404 pages
...thereby 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 dowa in a quiet ignorance of those things which, upon examination, are found to be beyond the reach... | |
 | Asa Mahan - Philosophy - 2003 - 494 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 its... | |
 | Richard Bauman, Charles L. Briggs - History - 2003 - 378 pages
...delimited meanings had best not be said at all. Locke hoped to prevail upon his readers "to sit down in a quiet ignorance of those things which, upon examination,...are found to be beyond the reach of our capacities" (ibid.). These metadiscursive controls thus provided a basis for what could be thought, discussed,... | |
 | Asa Mahan - Philosophy - 2003 - 493 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 its capacities. We should not then perhaps be so forward, vaunt of an affectation of a universal knowledge,... | |
 | Greg Forster - Philosophy - 2005 - 348 pages
...in meddling with things exceeding" the mind's "comprehension; to stop, when it is at the utmost end of its tether; and to sit down in quiet ignorance...are found to be beyond the reach of our capacities" (E I.1.4, 45). Starting with the fourth edition of the Essay, the title page quotes Ecclesiastes 11:5,... | |
 | Hannah Dawson - Political Science - 2007 - 295 pages
...extent of our knowledge ought to stop our strutting speeches, and encourage us rather 'to sit down in a quiet ignorance of those things, which, upon examination,...are found to be beyond the reach of our capacities'. We ought not to be 'so forward, out of an affectation of an universal knowledge, to raise questions,... | |
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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,... 
