 For the mind of man is far from the nature of a clear and equal glass, wherein the beams of things should reflect according to their true incidence; nay, it is rather like an enchanted glass, full of superstition and imposture, if it be not delivered...  The Works of Francis Bacon - Page 142by Francis Bacon (visct. St. Albans.) - 1819Full view - About this book
 | James Cloyd Bowman - American essays - 1918 - 504 pages
...their quest of truth, perceived that there were four grounds of human error. Of these the first is "the false appearances that are imposed upon us by the general nature of the mind" of man. The mind is always prone to accept the affirmative or active as proof rather than the negative;... | |
 | University of Michigan. Dept. of Rhetoric and Journalism - American essays - 1924 - 446 pages
...their quest of truth, perceived that there were four grounds of human error. Of these the first is "the false appearances that are imposed upon us by the general nature of the mind" of man. The mind is always prone to accept the affirmative or active as proof rather than the negative... | |
 | Electronic journals - 1925 - 610 pages
...beams of things should reflect according to their true incidence; nay, it is rather like an enchanted glass, full of superstition and imposture, if it be...imposed upon us by the general nature of the mind. . . . Browne opens the first book with a similar statement : The first and farther cause of common... | |
 | English philology - 1927 - 520 pages
...mit der menschlichen Sprache zu tun 2). Bereits in A ist der Grundgedanke angedeutet : 'And lastly let us consider the false appearances that are imposed upon us by words, which are framed and applied according to the conceit and capacities of the vulgär sort (NO... | |
 | Dentistry - 1883 - 206 pages
...beams of things should reflect according to their true incidence ; " it is rather like an enchanted glass full of superstition and imposture, if it be not delivered and reduced." As seen in this "enchanted glass," the coming and going of the teeth is well calculated to furnish... | |
 | Alfred Edward Housman - Criticism - 1969 - 64 pages
...beams of things should reflect according to their true incidence ; nay, it is rather like an enchanted glass, full of superstition and imposture, if it be not delivered and reduced'. But one clue I think I can commend to you which will lead in the right direction, though not all the... | |
 | J. C. Davis - History - 1983 - 444 pages
...beams of things should reflect according to their true incidence; nay, it is rather like an enchanted glass, full of superstition and imposture, if it be not delivered and reduced'.99 It was against the shortcomings of the mind that Bacon warned men in his theory of the... | |
 | Ekbert Faas - Drama - 1986 - 244 pages
...human mind as "a vagabond, dangerous, and fond-hardy implement,"47 while Bacon calls it "an enchanted glass, full of superstition and imposture, if it be not delivered and reduced."48 To the British philosopher, this distorting mirror was compounded of four major fallacies,... | |
 | Jules David Law - Literary Criticism - 1993 - 282 pages
...beams of things should reflect according to their true incidence; nay, it is rather like an enchanted glass, full of superstition and imposture, if it be not delivered and reduced" (153). Bacon's critique is considerably different from Locke's, however, because the Renaissance tropes... | |
 | Brian Harvey Goodwin Wormald, Wormald Brian Harvey Goodwin - History - 1993 - 436 pages
...beams of things should reflect according to their true incidence; nay, it is rather like an enchanted glass, full of superstition and imposture, if it be not delivered and reduced. '" Even if logicians could be converted to recognizing this, their logic would be incapable of changing... | |
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