 | 1842 - 622 pages
...proceed on that simple, yet profound and noble, aphorism of Lord Bacon: "Man, as the minister an,l interpreter of nature, does and understands as much...permit him, and neither knows nor is capable of more." Alchemy laboured to establish certain suppositions : modern chemistry observes the order of nature,... | |
 | Francis Bacon, Basil Montagu - 1831 - 478 pages
...enjoyment, but of the common affairs and fortune of mankind, and of a complete power of action. For man as the minister and interpreter of nature does, and understands, as much as he has observed of the order, operation, and mind of nature ; and neither knows nor is able to do more.... | |
 | 1833 - 480 pages
...the understanding," laid down the following rule by which to direct all future investigations : — " Man as the minister and interpreter of nature, does...him, and neither knows nor is capable of more.||" No sooner was the Novum Organum perused and comprehended, than the learned arailed themselves of the... | |
 | Francis Bacon, Basil Montagu - 1831 - 486 pages
...enjoyment, but of the common affairs and fortune of mankind, and of a complete power of action. For man as the minister and interpreter of nature does, and understands, as much as he has observed of the order, operation, and mind of nature ; and neither knows nor is able to do more.... | |
 | Samuel Greatheed, Daniel Parken, Theophilus Williams, Josiah Conder, Thomas Price, Jonathan Edwards Ryland, Edwin Paxton Hood - 1838 - 746 pages
...Bacon thought thus — Man, the minister of na' ture, understands as much as his observations of it, either with ' regard to things or the mind, permit him, and neither knows nor 'is capable of more.' The influence of this truth was early seen ; — first, in the system of Hobbes and Gassendi, by both... | |
 | 1858 - 690 pages
...Phil., p. 117. Spinoza, Ibid., p. 125. Jacobi, Ibid., p. 597. Comtt, Syst. Phil. Pos., Tol. i, p. 7. "Man, as the minister and interpreter of nature, does...him, and neither knows nor is capable of more."— Nov. Org., lib. I, Aph. I. Cf. Tnst. Magna. Distr. Op., vol. ix, p. 178. " The unassisted hand, and... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1841 - 616 pages
...enjoyment, but of the common affairs and fortune of mankind, and of a complete power of action. For man, as the minister and interpreter of nature does, and understands, as much as he has observed of the order, operation, and mind of nature; and neither knows nor is able to do more.... | |
 | Samuel Tyler - 1844 - 214 pages
...theory of mind, that all our knowledge is founded on experience — that we understand as much as our observations on the order of nature, either with regard to things or the mind, permit, but do not knowmore. But this exposition does not exhaust the fullness of the proposition; for it speaks... | |
 | Albert Taylor Bledsoe - 1845 - 258 pages
...THEOLOGICAL SCHOOL IN CAMBRIDGE. PRESIDENT EDWARDS' INQUIRY FREEDOM OF THE WILL. ALBERT TAYLOR BLEDSOE. " Man, as the minister and interpreter of nature, does...things or the mind, permit him, and neither knows more, nor is capable of more." — Novum Organum. PHILADELPHIA: H. HOOKER, 16 SOUTH SEVENTH STREET.... | |
 | George Lillie Craik - 1846 - 730 pages
...them. Mr. Glassford's version is, " may have observed by sense or mentally." Mr. Wood translates, — " Man, as the minister and interpreter of nature, does...understands as much, as his observations on the order of uature, either with regard to things or the mind, permit him." If not positively wrong, this is certainly... | |
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MAN, as the minister and Interpreter of Nature, does and understands as much as his observations on the Order of Nature, either with regard to things or the mind, permit him, and neither knows nor is capable of more. 
