 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
 | Peter Pesic - History - 2001 - 202 pages
...presumption? The human mind is not a faithful mirror of the world, as Aristotle taught, but "an enchanted glass, full of superstition and imposture, if it be not delivered and reduced." Our vision is distorted and corrupt, ruled by idols of common delusion. Science can only advance if... | |
 | Ruth Hill - Philosophy - 2000 - 308 pages
...El sueño, vv. 873—86. 135 Bacon too addressed the magic lantern in his treatment of the phantasy: full of superstition and imposture, if it be not delivered and reduced. (Advancement, bk. 2, ch. 14, pp. 126-27) 136 On the concept of microcosmos in earlier works of Spanish... | |
 | Kate Aughterson - History - 2002 - 628 pages
...true incidence; nay it is rather like an enchanted glass, full of superstition and imposmre, if it lie not delivered and reduced. For this purpose let us consider the false appearances that are imjiosed upon us hy the general namre of the mind, heholding them in an example or two: as first in... | |
 | Robert L. Perkins - Philosophy - 2002 - 400 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," sc. by due method. John Locke only says that it is like a mirror in that it cannot refuse, alter, and... | |
 | Francis Bacon - English essays - 2002 - 868 pages
...in our first book. ELENCHI MAGNI, sIVE DE IDOLIs ANIMt HUMANI NATIVIs ET ADVENTiTiis.0 And lastly, let us consider the false appearances that are imposed upon us by words,0 which are framed and applied according to the conceit and capacities of the vulgar sort:0 and... | |
 | Matthias Dörries - Language Arts & Disciplines - 2002 - 228 pages
...Bacon admired the precision of its language. In the Advancement of Learning he stated, "And lastly, let us consider the false appearances that are imposed upon us by words ... so as it is almost necessary in all controversies and disputations to imitate the wisdom... | |
 | Laura Dassow Walls - Biography & Autobiography - 2003 - 302 pages
...hardly "a clear and equal glass" reflecting reality accurately: "nay, it is rather like an enchanted glass, full of superstition and imposture, if it be not delivered and reduced." The rigor of Bacon's self-dis•49 ciplinary program was designed precisely to "deliver" the mind from... | |
 | Simon Brittan - Language Arts & Disciplines - 2003 - 242 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. . . . Hence it cometh, that the mathematicians cannot satisfy themselves, except they reduce the motions... | |
 | Michael Shermer - Science - 2005 - 348 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." In the end, thought Bacon, science offers the best hope to deliver the mind from such superstition... | |
 | Glyn Lloyd-Hughes - 2005 - 412 pages
...natures of Proofs and Demonstrations; which as to Induction hath a coincidence with Invention. Here 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: and... | |
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