 | Samuel Tyler - Philosophy - 1844 - 214 pages
...theory of mind, that all our knowledge is founded on experience — that we understand as much as our observations on the order of nature, either with regard to things or the mind, permit, but do not knowmore. But this exposition does not exhaust the fullness of the proposition; for it speaks... | |
 | Albert Taylor Bledsoe - Religion - 1845 - 258 pages
...THEOLOGICAL SCHOOL IN CAMBRIDGE. PRESIDENT EDWARDS' INQUIRY FREEDOM OF THE WILL. ALBERT TAYLOR BLEDSOE. " Man, as the minister and interpreter of nature, does...things or the mind, permit him, and neither knows more, nor is capable of more." — Novum Organum. PHILADELPHIA: H. HOOKER, 16 SOUTH SEVENTH STREET.... | |
 | George Lillie Craik - Philosophers - 1846 - 730 pages
...them. Mr. Glassford's version is, " may have observed by sense or mentally." Mr. Wood translates, — " Man, as the minister and interpreter of nature, does...understands as much, as his observations on the order of uature, either with regard to things or the mind, permit him." If not positively wrong, this is certainly... | |
 | George Lillie Craik - 1846 - 732 pages
...them. Mr. Glassford's version is, "may have ohserved hy sense or mentally." Mr. Wood translates. —" Man, as the minister and interpreter of nature, does and understands as much, as his ohservations on the order of nature, either with regard to things or the mind, permit him." If not... | |
 | Francis Bacon, Basil Montagu - 1848 - 612 pages
...SECOND PART, DIGESTED IN APHORISMS. APHORISMS ON THE INTERPRETATION OF NATURE AND THE EMPIRE OF MAN. 1. MAN, as the minister and interpreter of nature, does and understands as much as his obscrrations on the order of nature, either with regard to things or the mind, permit him, and neither... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1850 - 620 pages
...enjoyment, but of the common affairs and fortune of mankind, and of a complete power of action. For man, as the minister and interpreter of nature does, and understands, as much as he has observed of the order, operation, and mind of nature ; and neither knows nor is able to do more.... | |
 | Edwin Paxton Hood - 1851 - 224 pages
...very first paragraph of Lord Bacon's " Novum," already cited, is an era in the History of Science. " Man, as the minister and interpreter of Nature does, and understands as much, as his own observations on the order of Nature, either with regard to things, or the mind permit him, and... | |
 | Dugald Stewart - 1877 - 394 pages
...natural causes, for nature can only be subdued by being obeyed. — Bacon. P. 26, n., c. 1, 1. 19. — Man, as the minister and interpreter of nature, does and understands as much as he has observed of the order of nature, whether in the ordinary course of things, or by the application... | |
 | HODGES - 1856 - 780 pages
...standing Umbel's, tempted men to build lazily and insecurely. He laid his foundation deep in the axiom, " man, as the minister and interpreter of nature, does and understands as much as his observations or the order of nature, either with regard to things or the mind, permit him, and neither knows nor... | |
 | HODGES - 1856 - 780 pages
...standing Umbel's, tempted men to build lazily and insecurely. He laid his foundation deep in the axiom, " man, as the minister and interpreter of nature, does and understands as much as his observations or the order of nature, either with regard to things or the mind, permit him, and neither knows nor... | |
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MAN, as the minister and interpreter of nature, does and understands as much as his observations on the order of nature, either with regard to things or the mind, permit him, and neither knows nor is capable of more. 
