 | Oliver Joseph Thatcher - Anthologies - 1907 - 502 pages
...FRANCIS BACON THE NOVUM ORGANUM APHORISMS ON THE INTERPRETATION OF NATURE AND THE EMPIRE OF MAN 1. 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... | |
 | George Ellsworth Dawson - Religious education - 1909 - 144 pages
...of this view of human life has perhaps never been made than is contained in Bacon's first aphorism : Man, as the minister and interpreter of nature, does...mind, permit him, and neither knows nor is capable of more.1 Comenius also, whom some believe to have been the greatest educator of the Christian centuries,... | |
 | Methodist Church - 1858 - 688 pages
...117. Spinoza, Ibid., p. 125. Jacobi, Ibid., p. 597. Comti$, Syst. Phil. FOs., vol. i, p. 7. 1858.] 179 "Man, as the minister and interpreter of nature, does...permit him, and neither knows nor is capable of more." — Nov. Org., lib. I, Aph. I. Cf. Inst. Magna. Dislr. Op., vol. is, p. 178. " The unassisted hand,... | |
 | George Stuart Fullerton - Reality - 1912 - 326 pages
...ourselves to our surroundings. We repeat with approbation the aphorism of Bacon: "Man, the servant and interpreter of nature, does and understands as...the order of nature, either with regard to things or to the mind, permit him, and he neither knows nor is capable of more." It is matter of common experience... | |
 | Patrick Joseph McCormick - Education - 1915 - 448 pages
...aphorisms contained in the Novum Organum refer to what has often been called the scientific method. 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 while we falsely... | |
 | Theology - 1915 - 730 pages
..."Metaphysics," ad fin. problem of world-order precedes the problem of world ground: "Man, as the servant and interpreter of nature, does and understands as...with regard to things or the mind, permit him ; and he neither knows nor is capable of more". All physical phenomena and all mental phenomena are alike... | |
 | Waldo Grant Morse - Law - 1917 - 92 pages
...for "science" read "law". Quotation of notes are from Collier's edition 1901.) Man, as the minister of nature, does and understands as much as his observations...permit him, and neither knows nor is capable of more. 1 Nature is only sulxlucd by submission, and that which in contemplative philosophy corresponds with... | |
 | Alvin Thalheimer - Existentialism - 1918 - 128 pages
...their basis in sense-perceptions. "Man," says the first aphorism of the Novum "Ibid, p. 435Organum, "as the minister and interpreter of nature, does and...permit him, and neither knows nor is capable of more." All of us, then, get our opinions from our sense-data. Some, however, build big and inspiring, though... | |
 | George Perrigo Conger - Cosmology - 1922 - 226 pages
...a great difference. The very first aphorism of Bacon's Novum Organum lays down the principle that " Man, as the minister and interpreter of nature, does...permit him, and neither knows nor is capable of more." It is not surprising, then, to find Bacon criticizing the fantastic theories 1 Psevdod. epidem., II,... | |
 | John Howard Harris - Educators, American - 1926 - 622 pages
...with a message of their own, but deferentially they question what she has to say. So Bacon taught: "Man as the minister and interpreter of nature does...observations on the order of nature, either with regard to matter or mind, permit him; and he neither knows nor is capable of more." This sentiment revolutionized... | |
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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. 
