My mind seems to have become a kind of machine for grinding general laws out of large collections of facts, but why this should have caused the atrophy of that part of the brain alone, on which the higher tastes depend, I cannot conceive. The Popular Science Monthly - Page 3241888Full view - About this book
| Charles Darwin - 1887 - 588 pages
...become a kind of machine for grinding general laws out of large collections of facts, but why this should have caused the atrophy of that part of the brain alone, on which the higher tastes depend, I cannot conceive. A man with a mind more highly organised or better constituted than mine, would not,... | |
| Charles Darwin - 1887 - 586 pages
...become a kind of machine for grinding general laws out of large collections of facts, but why this should have caused the atrophy of that part of the brain alone, on which the higher tastes depend, I cannot conceive. A man with a mind more highly organised or better constituted than mine, would not,... | |
| Charles Darwin - 1887 - 570 pages
...become a kind of machine for grinding general laws out of large collections of facts, but why this should have caused the atrophy of that part of the brain alone, on which the higher tastes depend, I cannot conceive. A man with a mind more highly organised or better constituted than mine, would not,... | |
| 1887 - 604 pages
...become a kind of machine for grinding general laws out of a Inrge collection of facts, but why this should have caused the atrophy of that part of the brain alone, and on which the higher tastes depend, I cannot conceive. A man with a mind more highly organized or... | |
| 1888 - 962 pages
...become a sort of machine for grinding general laws out of large collections of facts ; but why this should have caused the atrophy of that part of the brain alone on which the higher tastes depend, I cannot conceive." It is, however, strictly logical that this should have been — almost too much so,... | |
| William Parker Cutler - 1888 - 1034 pages
...become a kind of machine for grinding general laws out of large collections of facts, but why this should have caused the atrophy of that part of the brain alone, on which the higher tastes depend, I cannot conceive. A man with a mind more highly organised or better constituted than mine, would not,... | |
| 1888 - 746 pages
...become a kind of a machine for grinding general laws out of a large collection of facts, but why this should have caused the atrophy of that part of the brain alone, on which the higher tastes depend, I cannot conceive. A man with a mind more highly organized or better constituted than mine, would not,... | |
| 1888 - 510 pages
...become a kind of machine for grinding general laws out of large collections of facts, but why this should have caused the atrophy of that part of the brain alone on which the higher tastes depend I cannot conceive." Of one who thus writes of himself in all sincerity it would be most irrational to... | |
| 1888 - 950 pages
...become a sort of machine for grinding general laws out of large collections of facts ; but why this should have caused the atrophy of that part of the brain alone on which the higher tastes depend, I cannot conceive." As a recent writer has very pithily put it, " we think that a truth so entirely inoperative... | |
| Jabez Thomas Sunderland, Brooke Herford, Frederick B. Mott - 1889 - 608 pages
...become a kind of machine for grinding general laws out of large collections of facts, but why this should have caused the atrophy of that part of the brain alone, on which the higher tastes depend, I cannot conceive. A man with a mind more highly organized or better constituted than mine, would not,... | |
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