 | American Association for the Advancement of Science - 1889 - 550 pages
...1858. ADDRESS BT SP LAKGLEY, THE RETIRING PRESIDENT OF THE ASSOCIATION. THE HISTORY OF A DOCTRINE. "Man, being the servant and interpreter of nature,...do and understand so much, and so much only, as he hns observed, in fact or in thought, of the course of nature. Beyond this he neither knows anything... | |
 | American Association for the Advancement of Science - 1889 - 542 pages
...1858. ADDRESS BY SP LAKGLEY, THE RETIRISG PRESIDENT OF THE ASSOCIATION. THE HISTORY OF A DOCTRINE. "Man, being the servant and Interpreter of nature, can do and understand so much, and so mueh only, as he has observed, in fact or in thought, of the course of nature. Beyond this he neither... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1858 - 522 pages
...judgment. APHORISMS. APHORISMS CONCERNING THE INTERPRETATION OP NATURE AND THE KINGDOM OF MAN. APHORISM I. MAN, being the servant and interpreter of Nature,...this he neither knows anything nor can do anything. ii. Neither the naked hand nor the understanding left to itself can effect much. It is by instruments... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1858 - 516 pages
...judgment. APHOEISMS. APHORISMS CONCERNING THE INTERPRETATION OF NATURE AND THE KINGDOM OF MAN. APHORISM I. MAN, being the servant and interpreter of Nature,...this he neither knows anything nor can do anything. ii. Neither the naked hand nor the understanding left to itself can effect much. It is by instruments... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1861 - 578 pages
...APHOKISHS. • APHORISMS CONCERNING THE INTERPRETATION OF NATURE AND THE KINGDOM OF MAN. APHORISM I. MAN, being the servant and interpreter of Nature,...this he neither knows anything nor can do anything. II. Neither the naked hand nor the understanding left to itself can effect much. It is by instruments... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1863 - 532 pages
...judgment. APHORISMS. APHORISMS CONCERNING THE INTERPRETATION OF NATURE AKD THE KINGDOM OF MAN. APHORISM I. MAN, being the servant and interpreter of Nature,...has observed in fact or in thought of the course of O nature: beyond this he neither knows anything nor can do anything. n. Neither the naked hand nor... | |
 | Francis Bowen - 1864 - 480 pages
...they extend to the knowledge of real objects, are dependent solely upon observation and experiment. " Man, being the servant and interpreter of Nature, can do and understand so much only as he has observed, either in fact or in thought, of the course of Nature ; beyond this, he cannot... | |
 | Francis Bowen - 1864 - 480 pages
...they extend to the knowledge of real objects, are dependent solely upon observation and experiment. " Man, being the servant and interpreter of Nature, can do and understand so much only as he has observed, either in fact or in thought, of the course of Nature ; beyond this, he cannot... | |
 | Francis Bowen - 1864 - 472 pages
...they extend to the knowledge of real objects, are dependent solely upon observation and experiment. " Man, being the servant and interpreter of Nature, can do and understand so much only as he has observed, either in fact or in thought, of the course of Nature ; beyond this, he cannot... | |
 | Francis Dennis Massy DAWSON - 1870 - 152 pages
...which we have positive evidence of what He did, are frivolous in the extreme. " Man," says Bacon, " being the servant and interpreter of nature, can do...only, as he has observed in fact or in thought of nature ; beyond this, He neither knows anything nor can do anything " (Nov. Org.) So, also, is it in... | |
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MAN, being the servant and interpreter of Nature, can do and understand so much and so much only as he has observed in fact or in thought of the course of nature: beyond this he neither knows anything nor can do anything. 
