 | Royal Society (Great Britain) - 1912 - 584 pages
...such means, he believed, man could attain to ' the knowledge of causes and secret motions of things, and the enlarging of the bounds of human empire, to the effecting of all things possible.' l He held that ' there is much ground for hoping that there are still laid up in the womb of Nature... | |
 | William Henry Hudson - 1912 - 302 pages
...inform his visitors, "the end of our foundation is the knowledge of causes and secret motions of things, and the enlarging of the bounds of human empire to the effecting of all things possible." In this double-sided programme Bacon clearly indicates his idea of what science should be and should... | |
 | Columbia University - 1913 - 810 pages
...New Atlantis: "The end of our foundation is the knowledge of causes, and secret motions of things ; and the enlarging of the bounds of human empire, to the effecting of all things possible." Respectfully submitted, FREDERICK JE WOODBRIDGE, Dean. June 30, 1914. SCHOOL OF JOURNALISM REPORT OF... | |
 | David L. Sills, Robert King Merton - 2000 - 466 pages
...(1625) 1936:48. 1 1 The End of Our Foundation is the knowledge of Causes and secret motions of things, and the enlarging of the bounds of Human Empire, to the effecting of all things possible. New Atlantis (1627) 1965:447. Walter Bagehot 1826-1877 British economic and political writer 1 I fear... | |
 | Thomas Fröhlich - 2000 - 416 pages
...Ziel es heißt: »The End of our Foundation is the knowledge of causes and secret motions of things; and the enlarging of the bounds of Human Empire, to the effecting of all things possible.« 30 28 So bei SAAGE, Politische Utopien der Neuzeit, S. 151-233; oder LÜBBE, Der Lebenssinn der Industriegesellschaft,... | |
 | Margaret Cavendish - 2000 - 340 pages
...New Atlantis, is charged with investigating "the knowledge of Causes, and secret motions of things; and the enlarging of the bounds of Human Empire, to the effecting of all things possible." New Atlantis was probably written in 1624, although it was published unfinished by William Rawley in... | |
 | Paul Rutherford - 2000 - 388 pages
...were limitless: 'The end of our foundation is the knowledge of causes, and secret motions of things; and the enlarging of the bounds of human empire, to the effecting of all things possible.'33 That example and that mission aptly suited the self-image corporations manufactured in... | |
 | Jim Norwine, Jonathan M. Smith - 2000 - 302 pages
...society of scientists established to discover "the knowledge of causes and secret motions of things and the enlarging of the bounds of human empire to the effecting of all things possible."57 Today this is the landscape of information and high technology, the landscape of universities,... | |
 | Sergio Perosa - 2000 - 132 pages
...causes coincide: "The end of our foundation is the knowledge of causes, and secret motions of things; and the enlarging of the bounds of human empire, to the effecting of all thing possible". Yet the "Water of Paradise" still runs through the island for health and prolongation... | |
 | Dennis Smith - 2001 - 212 pages
...scientific college, 'The end of our foundation is the knowledge of causes and secret motions of things, and the enlarging of the bounds of human empire, to the effecting of all things possible'. The idea of human empire was a major ideal and legitimizing concept in modern Europe, especially as religious... | |
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The end of our foundation is the knowledge of causes, and secret motions of things; and the enlarging of the bounds of human empire, to the effecting of all things possible. 
