 | 1837 - 608 pages
...Fellowsof the College, Merchantsof light and Depredators, Lamps and Pioneers. To sum up the whole : we should say that the aim of the Platonic philosophy...with what he requires while he continues to be man. The aim of the Platonic philosophy was to raise us far above vulgar wants. The aim of the Baconian... | |
 | 1837 - 538 pages
...sense in which the mass of mankind always have understood, and always will understand the word i/iicd. The aim of the Platonic philosophy was to exalt man...man with what he requires while he continues to be a man. The aim of the Platonic philosopher was to raise us far above vulgar wants. The aim of the Baconian... | |
 | 1838 - 870 pages
...fellows of the college, merchants of light and depredators, lamps and pioneers. To sum up the whole : we should say that the aim of the Platonic philosophy...with what he requires while he continues to be man. The aim of the Platonic philosophy was to raise us far above vulgar wants. The aim of the Baconian... | |
 | 1841 - 570 pages
...not discover a cure for the toothache, or invent the safety-lamp. " To sum up the whole," he says, " we should say that the aim of the Platonic philosophy...with what he requires while he continues to be man. The aim of the Platonic philosophy was to raise us far above vulgar wants. The aim of the Baconian... | |
 | 1847 - 662 pages
...better calculated to produce an effect than to elucidate the truth. " To sum up the whole," says he, "we should say that the aim of the Platonic philosophy...provide man with what he requires while he continues man. The aim of the Platonic philosophy was to raise us far above vulgar wants. The aim of the Baconian... | |
 | Alonzo Potter - 1841 - 484 pages
...sense in which the mass of mankind always have understood, and always will understand, the word good. The aim of the Platonic philosophy was to exalt man...man with what he requires, while he continues to be a man. The aim of the Platonic philosophy was to raise us far above vulgar wants. The aim of the Baconian... | |
 | Caleb Sprague Henry, Joseph Green Cogswell - 1841 - 558 pages
...safety-lamp. " To sum up the whole," he says, " we should say that the aim of the Platonic philosophy vas to exalt man into a god. The aim of the Baconian philosophy...with what he requires while he continues to be man. The aim of the Platonic philosophy was to raise us far above vulgar wants. The aim of the Baconian... | |
 | 1842 - 648 pages
...increase the pleasures, and to mitigate the pains of millions who are not, and cannot be, philosophers. The aim of the Platonic philosophy was to exalt man...with what he requires while he continues to be man. " The philosophy of Plato began in words and ended in words — noble words indeed — words such as... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1843 - 520 pages
...Fellows of the College, Merchants of Light and Depredators, Lamps and Pioneers. To sum up the whole, we should say that the aim of the Platonic philosophy...with what he requires while he continues to be man. The aim of the Platonic philosophy was to raise us far above vulgar wants. The aim of the Baconian... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1846 - 782 pages
...Fellows of the College, Merchants of light and Depredators, Lamps and Pioneers. To sum up the whole : yed with convulsions, and groans, and tears. He was half maddened The aim of the Platonic philosophy was to raise us far above vulgar wants. The aim of the Baconian... | |
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To sum up the whole, we should say that the aim of the Platonic philosophy was to exalt man into a god. The aim of the Baconian philosophy was to provide man with what he requires while he continues to be man. 
