 | Francis Bacon - 1858 - 522 pages
...speculation, but the real business and fortunes of the human race, and all power of operation. For man is but the servant and interpreter of nature :...nothing. For the chain of causes cannot by any force be loosqd or broken, nor can nature be commanded except by being obeyed. And so those twin objects, human... | |
 | Nathaniel Holmes - 1886 - 480 pages
...Or, again, " quantum de Naturae ordine re vel mente, observaverit."8 Mr. Spedding's translation is, What he has observed of nature's order in fact or in thought ; that is, what man has observed, or thought, about the order of Nature. But this is neither the language... | |
 | Nathaniel Holmes - 1888 - 518 pages
...Mr. Wm. Wood translates it "the order, operation, and mind of Nature." Mr. Spedding gives it thus : "What he has observed of nature's order in fact or in thought." Bacon's Works, by Montagu, ed. Philad. 1854, iii. 342 ; Holmes's Auth. of Shakes., pp. 83 and 399.... | |
 | Edwin Bormann - 1895 - 376 pages
...intelligit, quantum de Naturae ordhic, Opere, •vel Mentc, observavcrit: nee amplius scit, aut potest. (For man is but the servant and interpreter of nature,...nature's order in fact or in thought; beyond this he knmvs nothing and can do nothing.) He thereupon closes the consideration of the sixth part with these... | |
 | 1905 - 958 pages
...speculation, but the real business and fortunes of the human race, and all power of operation. For man is but the servant and interpreter of nature : what he does and what he knows is only what lie has observed of nature's order in fact or in thought ; beyond this he knows nothing and can do... | |
 | Sir Adolphus William Ward, Alfred Rayney Waller - 1909 - 598 pages
...it was meant to characterise the new philosophy of which he claims to have made only the beginning. the servant and interpreter of nature: what he does...order in fact or in thought ; beyond this he knows nothing1 and can do nothing. For the chain of causes cannot by any force be loosed or broken, nor can... | |
 | Tadasu Misawa - 1909 - 348 pages
...syllogism, but only by humble, diligent, and methodical inquiries into the great " volume of God's works." " Man is but the servant and interpreter of nature:...only what he has observed of Nature's order in fact and thought; beyond this he knows nothing and can do nothing. For the chain of causes cannot by any... | |
 | Sir Adolphus William Ward, Alfred Rayney Waller - 1909 - 608 pages
...business and fortunes of the human race, and all power of operation. For man is but Classes of Idols 285 the servant and interpreter of nature : -what he does...what he has observed of nature's order in fact or in t bought ; beyond this he knows nothing; and can do nothing. For the chain of causes cannot by any... | |
 | 1910 - 482 pages
...speculation, but the real business and fortunes of the human race, and all power of operation. For man is but the servant and interpreter of nature:...and what he knows is only what he has observed of nature s order in fact or in thought; beyond this he knows nothing and can do nothing. For the chain... | |
 | 1912 - 700 pages
...philosopher who bases his scheme on facts. This sentence in the „Novum Organum" contains his thesis : „Man is but the servant and interpreter of Nature;...observed of Nature's order in fact or in thought." The rigid limitation here implied forbids all speculation as to general causes ; yet is of inestimable... | |
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For man is but the servant and interpreter of nature : what he does and what he knows is only what he has observed of nature's order in fact or in thought ; beyond this he knows nothing and can do nothing. For the chain of causes cannot by any force be... 
