 | Franklin Verzelius Newton Painter - English literature - 1899 - 822 pages
...which, including the first, are here given as indicating the character of the whole work : — " I. Man, as the minister and interpreter of nature, does...permit him, and neither knows nor is capable of more. " IX. The sole cause and root of almost every defect in the sciences is this ; that whilst we falsely... | |
 | Washington Academy of Sciences (Washington, D.C.) - Science - 1900 - 798 pages
...essay. Rendered into the more trenchant and vigorous language of the present, this aphorism reads : Man, as the minister and interpreter of nature, does...mind, permit him, and neither knows nor is capable of more.1 'Translation edited by Joseph Devey and published in Bohn's Philosophical Library under the... | |
 | Francis Bacon - Logic - 1899 - 526 pages
...be master of himself. APHORISMS BOOK I On the Interpretation of Nature and the Empire of Man M AN, as the minister and interpreter of nature, does and...understands as much as his observations on the order ^r-TrTe unassisted hand and the understanding left to itself possess but little power. Effects are... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1900 - 542 pages
...begun to be master of himself. APHORlSMS BOOK I On the Interpretation of Nature and the Empire of Man MAN, as the minister and interpreter of nature, does...permit him, and neither knows nor is capable of more. 2. The unassisted hand and the understanding left to itself possess but little power. Effects are produced... | |
 | Benjamin Ward Richardson, Mrs. George Martin - Medicine - 1901 - 498 pages
...work, work, work, on his own account with nature and with no other competitor ; assured that — " Man, as the minister and interpreter of nature, does...permit him, and neither knows nor is capable of more." Printed by Hazill, IVatson, <S- Vinry, Ld., London and Ayltsbitiy. COUNTWAY I.IBRAHV HC MKK7 . 1.E.S6.... | |
 | Francis Bacon - Logic - 1901 - 606 pages
...master of himself. APHORISMS.— BOOK I. On the Interpretation of Natwre and the Empire of Man. I. MAN, as the minister and interpreter of nature, does...permit him, and neither knows nor is capable of more. II. The unassisted hand and the understanding left to itself possess but little power. Effects are... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1901 - 302 pages
...minister and interpreter of nature, does I and understands as much as his observations on the order t of nature, either with regard to things or the mind,...permit him, and neither knows nor is capable of more. II. The unassisted hand and the understanding left to itself possess but little power. Effects are... | |
 | John Arthur Thomson - Science - 1903 - 582 pages
...the consistency of our scientific mood. Is not the whole point expressed in Bacon's aphorism ? — " Man, as the minister and interpreter of nature, does...permit him, and neither knows nor is capable of more." lt is difficult, perhaps, to say what the word " understand " means in this aphorism, but if it mean... | |
 | Francis Bacon - Logic - 1904 - 616 pages
...master of himself. APHORISMS.—BOOK I. On the Interpretation of Nature and the Empire of Man. I. MAX, as the minister and interpreter of nature, does and...permit him, and neither knows nor is capable of more. II. The unassisted hand and the understanding left to itself possess but little power. Effects are... | |
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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. 
