 | 1836 - 558 pages
...fundamental data, must be sought for, collected, and applied from without. From this general contrast it will easily be seen how an excessive study of the...intellectual energies which philosophy and life require. We are thus disqualified for observation either internal or external — for abstraction and generalization... | |
 | Edward Tagart - 1837 - 156 pages
...data, must be sought for, collected, and applied from without." " From this general contrast it will be seen how an excessive study of the mathematical...intellectual energies which philosophy and life require. We are thus disqualified for observation either internal or external, for abstraction and generalization,... | |
 | New College, London - 1851 - 318 pages
...rare danger! It is affirmed merely of the " EXCESSIVE stud}- of the mathematical sciences," that it " not only does not prepare, but absolutely incapacitates...intellectual energies which philosophy and life require ;" and it is by this " EXCESSIVE study" alone that " we are disqualified for observation," and so forth,... | |
 | Sir William Hamilton - 1852 - 848 pages
...easily be seen, how an excessive study of the mathematical sciences not only docs not prepare, hut absolutely incapacitates the mind, for those intellectual energies which philosophy and life require. We are thus disqualified 'or observation, either internal or external, — for abstraction and generalization,... | |
 | Sir William Hamilton - 1853 - 828 pages
...fundamental data, must be sought for, collected, and applied from without. From this general contrast it will easily be seen, how an excessive study of...intellectual energies which philosophy and life require. We are thus disqualified for observation, either internal or external — for abstraction and generalization... | |
 | Sir William Hamilton - 1853 - 832 pages
...fundamental data, must be sought for, collected, and applied from without. From this general contrast it will easily be seen, how an excessive study of...intellectual energies which philosophy and life require. We are thus disqualified for observation, either internal or external — for abstraction and generalization... | |
 | 1853 - 570 pages
...of authorities pro and con. : the writer's conclusion being, that an excessive study of mathematics not only does not prepare, but absolutely incapacitates...intellectual energies which philosophy and life require — disqualifying us for observation, either internal or external, for abstraction and generalisation,... | |
 | John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell, Henry T. Steele - 1853 - 606 pages
...of authorities pro and con : the writer's conclusion being, that an excessive study of mathematics rner of a shelf, when Mary asked for them.f Mrs. B.'s...lay in piles about. Knowledge insignificant and v — disqualifying us for observation, either internal or external, for abstraction and generalization,... | |
 | Sir William Hamilton - 1861 - 816 pages
...fundamental data, must be sought for, collected, and applied from without. From this general contrast it will easily be seen, how an excessive study of...intellectual energies which philosophy and life require. We are thus disqualified for observation, either internal or external — for abstraction and generalization... | |
 | 1870 - 644 pages
...faith have been carried into other departments of thought. Again, Hamilton says : " It will be easily seen how an excessive study of the mathematical sciences...things, we reply, no one advocates such exclusive study. Again, he says : " Mathematics afford no assistance, either in conquering the difficulties, or in avoiding... | |
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From this general contrast it will easily be seen, how an excessive study of the mathematical sciences not only does not prepare, but absolutely incapacitates the mind, for those intellectual energies which philosophy and life require. 
