 | William Greenough Thayer Shedd - Pastoral theology - 1872 - 448 pages
...opening of one of the most sagacious and suggestive of modern treatises in philosophy reads as follows: "Man, as the minister and interpreter of nature, does...as much as his observations on the order of nature, eitheif with regard to matter or to mind, permit him, and neither knows nor is capable of more."1 In... | |
 | Linnean Society of New South Wales - Natural history - 1882 - 1006 pages
...understands better, or applies more thoroughly than Darwin the principle laid down by Lord Bacon, that ' Man, as the minister and interpreter of nature, does...as much as his observations on the order of nature permits him, and neither knows nor is capable of more.' To one who rightly apprehends this, the fundamental... | |
 | Joseph Jones - Communicable diseases - 1876 - 848 pages
...and analyze, and decompose, and compare the more complicated phenomena. In the language of Bacon, " Man, as the minister and interpreter of nature, does and understands as much as his observations upon the order of nature permit him, and neither knows oor is capable of more.'' The neglect of this,... | |
 | Early English newspapers - 1877 - 936 pages
...the foundation of all real progress in knowledge. " Man," he said, " as the minister and-interpreter of nature, does and understands as much as his observations on the order of nature permit him, and neither knows nor is capable of more." 1 It would seem, then, as if there could be... | |
 | James Freeman Clarke - Conduct of life - 1880 - 468 pages
...science is that the last verifies everything ; that is, puts truth into it. "Man," says Lord Bacon, "the minister and interpreter of nature, does and understands as much as he can observe of the order of things or of the mind, and can know and do nothing more." To love and... | |
 | Robert Ellis Dudgeon - Homeopathy - 1882 - 128 pages
...the usefulness of the School. December, 1882. HAHNEMANN, THE FOUNDER OF SCIENTIFIC THERAPEUTICS. " Man, as the minister and interpreter of nature, does...permit him, and neither knows nor is capable of more." — Nov. Org:, aph. i. GENTLEMEN, Hahnemann has been dead nearly forty years. He now belongs to history.... | |
 | H. Griffith - Apologetics - 1882 - 184 pages
...Science ! The new philosophy took for its starting axiom, or postulate, the broad assertion, that' Man as minister and interpreter of Nature, does and understands...permit him, and neither knows nor is capable of more.' This primary aphorism was not simply repeated over and over again, but every possible emphasis was... | |
 | Linnean Society of New South Wales - Natural history - 1882 - 926 pages
...understands better, or applies more thoroughly than Darwin the principle laid down by Lord Bacon, that ' Man, as the minister and interpreter of nature, does...as much as his observations on the order of nature permits him, and neither knows nor is capable of more.' To one who rightly apprehends this, the fundamental... | |
 | Robert Aitkin Bertram - 1884 - 610 pages
...light and heat, Makes His sun on us to shine : All our blessings are divine !" — C. WaUy. (ß) Alan, as the minister and interpreter of nature, does and understands as much ал his observations on the order of nature, either with regard to things or the mind, permit him,... | |
 | John Brodhead Wentworth - Psychology - 1886 - 458 pages
...of that species of Philosophy. Thus, in the opening sentence of the " Novum Organum," he declares: " Man, as the minister and interpreter of Nature, does and understands as much as his observation on the order of Nature, either with regard to things or the mind, permit him, and neither... | |
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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. 
