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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. "
Links in the Chain; Or, Popular Chapters on the Curiosities of Animal Life - Page 207
by George Kearley - 1862 - 295 pages
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Philosophical works

Francis Bacon - 1854 - 894 pages
...fourthly, the ordinances and rites which we observe. " The end of our foundation is the knowledge of / human empire, to the effecting of all things possible. " The preparations and instruments are these....
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Works: Collected and Edited by James Spedding, Robert Leslie Ellis ..., Volume 3

Francis Bacon - 1859 - 852 pages
...fourthly, the ordinances and rites which we observe. " 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 Preparations and Instruments are these....
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The Works of Francis Bacon: Philosophical works

Francis Bacon (Viscount St. Albans) - 1857 - 856 pages
...fourthly, the ordinances and rites which we observe. " 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 Preparations and Instruments are these....
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Report of the ... Meeting of the British Association for the ..., Volume 28

British Association for the Advancement of Science - 1859 - 750 pages
...informs us, by the mouth of one of its members, that " the end of its 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." Amongst the means and instruments to this great...
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The Works, Volume 3

Francis Bacon - 1859 - 856 pages
...fourthly, the ordinances and rites which we observe. " 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 Preparations and Instruments are these....
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Handbook of the British Association for the Advancement of Science

Margaret Fison - 1859 - 242 pages
...Association of Great Britain. " The end of its foundation," said this great philosopher, "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 the first stage of its action, the principle...
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The Philosophical Works of Francis Bacon, with Prefaces and Notes ..., Volume 3

Francis Bacon - 1861 - 862 pages
...fourthly, the ordinances and rites which we observe. " 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 Preparations and Instruments are these....
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Annual Report of the Board of Regents of the Smithsonian Institution

Smithsonian Institution. Board of Regents - 1863 - 470 pages
...try new experiments, &c. "The end of our foundation," says one of the members, "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." Fontenelle paints in his own manner — that...
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The North Lonsdale Magazine and Lake District Miscellany

1867 - 332 pages
...ordinances and rites which they observed. The end of the formation he defined to be 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 preparations and instruments were numerous....
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Monthly Journal of Science, and Annals of Biology, Astronomy ..., Volume 5

James Samuelson, William Crookes - 1868 - 664 pages
...who has devoted all the powers of his mind with unwearying industry to seeking out "the knowledge of causes, and secret motions of things, and the enlarging of the bounds of human empire ; " * the man who really advances the human race by dispelling ignorance, by dethroning...
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