 | 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
...usefulness of the School. December, 1882. HAHNEMANN, THE FOUNDER OF SCIENTIFIC THERAPEUTICS. " Man, as the minister and interpreter of nature, does and...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 and...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
...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... | |
 | Charles F. Steel - 1888 - 312 pages
...example, compare an aphorism with Shakespeare's apostrophe to man : — Bacon's Aphorism No. i. — " 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... | |
 | Nathaniel Holmes - Idealism - 1888 - 540 pages
...their true incidence," was "rather an enchanted glass full of superstition and imposture." But "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... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1889 - 590 pages
...the ' Novum Organum ' : " Man, as the minister 1 Hamlet, act iii. sc. 2. VOL. V. B and interpreter, does and understands as much as his observations on...permit him, and neither knows nor is capable of more." The 'just standard' of nature in poetry which Pope commends to the critic is that direct, imitative... | |
 | Alexander Pope - Poets, English - 1889 - 574 pages
...Organum ' : " Man, as the minister 1 Humlot, act iii. sc. 2. 50 LIFE OF POPB. [CHAP. in. and interpreter, does and understands as much as his observations on...permit him, and neither knows nor is capable of more." The ' just standard ' of nature in poetry which Pope commends to the critic is that direct, imitative... | |
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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. 
