 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
 | Louis K. Dupré - Philosophy - 1993 - 318 pages
...original. Therefore Bacon cautions against distorted reflections in a mind that "is rather an enchanted glass, full of superstition and imposture, if it be not delivered and reduced." The source of truth for Bacon continues to lie outside the mind, although the emphasis placed on the... | |
 | Catherine Drinker Bowen - Biography & Autobiography - 1993 - 294 pages
...beams of things should reflect according to their true incidence. Nay rather, it is like an enchanted glass, full of superstition and imposture, if it be not delivered and reduced." And elsewhere, urging men not to fear passion in their intellectuality: "Icarus, being in the pride... | |
 | 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.'11 Even if logicians could be converted to recognizing this, their logic would be incapable... | |
 | William A. Covino - Language Arts & Disciplines - 1994 - 208 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. (Advancement 2.14.9; 132) As DP Walker concludes, "Bacon still believed in the traditional doctrine... | |
 | Allan Megill - Philosophy - 1994 - 356 pages
...observer. Three centuries ago, Sir Francis Bacon suggested that the "mind of man" is an "enchanted glass, full of superstition and imposture, if it be not delivered and reduced."40 As late- or post-moderns, we can hardly hope that this delivery and reduction will ever... | |
 | R. S. Woolhouse - Language and languages - 1994 - 536 pages
...42. Boyle, Works, vol. Ill, p. 41. 43. This doctrine is also in Bacon, Advancement of Learning Bk.II: '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 vulgar sort.' Works,... | |
 | Jens Bartelson - Political Science - 1995 - 338 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'.35 In order to dust off and disenchant the glass, the referential possibility of language... | |
 | Thomas L. Hankins, Robert J. Silverman - Creative ability in science - 1999 - 358 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."11 In this analogy Bacon compared the imagination to a favorite instrument of natural magic... | |
 | Walter F. Greiner, Fritz Kemmler - Criticism - 1997 - 282 pages
...beams of things should reflect according to their true incidence; nay, it is father like an enchanted glass, full of superstition and imposture, if it be not delivered and reduced." (The Advancement of Learning [1605]. — Hier zit. nach der Ausgabe in der Everyman's Library, ed.... | |
 | Perez Zagorin - Biography & Autobiography - 1999 - 318 pages
...of the understanding; for rather than reflecting things as they are, the mind is "like an enchanted glass, full of superstition and imposture, if it be not delivered and reduced." He listed three categories of such false appearances. The first, "the root of all superstition," was... | |
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