 But then, and then only, may we hope well of the sciences, when in a just scale of ascent, and by successive steps not interrupted or broken, we rise from particulars to lesser axioms; and then to middle axioms, one above the other; and last of all to...  Macmillan's Magazine - Page 437edited by - 1894Full view - About this book
 | 1894 - 856 pages
...solidi. At media sunt axiomata illa vera, et solida et viva, in quibus humanas res et fortunœ sitœ sunt. (For the lowest axioms differ but slightly from...depend the affairs and fortunes of men)." The French genins on the other hand dwells rather in the region of the axiomata abstracta et generalia. When the... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1858 - 522 pages
...lesser axioms ; and then to middle axioms, one above the other : and last of all to the most general. For the lowest axioms differ but slightly from bare...axioms, on which depend the affairs and fortunes of men ; and above them again, last of all, those which are indeed the most general ; such I mean as are not... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1858 - 540 pages
...lesser axioms ; and then to middle axioms, one above the other : and last of all to the most general. For the lowest axioms differ but slightly from bare...axioms, on which depend the affairs and fortunes of men ; and above them again, last of all, those which are indeed the most general ; such I mean as are not... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1858 - 516 pages
...lesser axioms; and then to middle axioms, one above the other: and last of all to the most general. For the lowest axioms differ but slightly from bare...axioms, on which depend the affairs and fortunes of men; and above them again, last of all, those which are indeed the most general; such I mean as are not... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1861 - 578 pages
...lesser axioms ; and then to middle axioms, one above the other : and last of all to the most general. For the lowest axioms differ but slightly from bare...axioms, on which depend the affairs and fortunes of men ; and above them again, last of all, those which are indeed the most general ; such I mean as are not... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1864 - 528 pages
...lesser axioms ; and then to middle axioms, one above the other ; and last of all to the most general. For the lowest axioms differ but slightly from bare...axioms, on which depend the affairs and fortunes of men ; and above them again, last of all, those which are indeed the most general ; such I mean as are not... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1883 - 516 pages
...lesser axioms; and then to middle axioms, one above the other : and last of all to the most general. For the lowest axioms differ but slightly from bare...notional and abstract and without solidity. But the mid-lie are the true and solid and living axioms, on which depend the affairs and fortunes of men ;... | |
 | Thomas Fowler - 1881 - 254 pages
...establishing by a careful induction a sufficient number of intermediate axioms (" axiomata media "), which are " the true and solid and living axioms, on which depend the affairs and fortunes of men." " The understanding," he \ adds (too much ignoring, perhaps, here as elsewhere, the office of the imagination... | |
 | Leslie Stephen - 1885 - 490 pages
...egtablisuuiji by a careful induction a sufficient number -if intermediate axioms ('axiomata media'), which are ' the true and solid and living axioms, on which depend the affairs ami fortunes of men.' Again, in Aph. 10o. b-- emphatically condemns the met hod of induction by simple... | |
 | 1885 - 480 pages
...establishing bv a careful induction a sufficient number of intermediate axioms ('axioinata media'), which are 'the true and solid and living axioms, on which depend the aftairs and fortunes of men.' Again, in Aph. 105. he emphaticallv condemns the method of induction... | |
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