 For the mind of man is far from the nature of a clear and equal glass, wherein the beams of things should reflect according to their true incidence ; nay, it is rather like an enchanted glass, full of superstition and imposture, if it be not delivered...  Character of Lord Bacon: His Life and Works - Page 134by Thomas Martin - 1835 - 367 pagesFull view - About this book
 | William A. Covino - 1994 - 208 pages
...truth. The autonomous and mistaken thinker is identified with magical beliefs: For the mind of man is far from the nature of a clear and equal glass,...superstition and imposture, if it be not delivered and reduced. (Advancement 2.14.9; 132) As DP Walker concludes, "Bacon still believed in the traditional... | |
 | Allan Megill - 1994 - 356 pages
...fundamental threat to objectivity is idiosyncrasy. Both share the Baconian view of subjectivity as an "enchanted glass, full of superstition and imposture, if it be not delivered and reduced."56 Both locate the chief obstacle to the acquisition of truth within the individual. Thus... | |
 | Jens Bartelson - 1995 - 338 pages
...in order for knowledge to constitute itself as such, the beam must be dusted off: 'The mind of man is far from the nature of a clear and equal glass,...superstition and imposture, if it be not delivered and reduced'.35 In order to dust off and disenchant the glass, the referential possibility of language... | |
 | Thomas L. Hankins, Robert J. Silverman - 1999 - 358 pages
...also draw comparisons between them. In the Advancement of Learning Bacon wrote, "For the mind of man is far from the nature of a clear and equal glass...superstition and imposture, if it be not delivered and reduced."11 In this analogy Bacon compared the imagination to a favorite instrument of natural... | |
 | Walter F. Greiner, Fritz Kemmler - 1997 - 282 pages
...(1561-1626). In der Erläuterung seiner sog. "doctrine of 'Idols'" hält er fest: "For the mind of man is far from the nature of a clear and equal glass,...reflect according to their true incidence; nay, it is father like an enchanted glass, full of superstition and imposture, if it be not delivered and reduced."... | |
 | Perez Zagorin - 1998 - 318 pages
...warping and misdirection of the understanding; for rather than reflecting things as they are, the mind is "like an enchanted glass, full of superstition and imposture, if it be not delivered and reduced." He listed three categories of such false appearances. The first, "the root of all superstition,"... | |
 | Graham Hammill - 2000 - 248 pages
...concerning knowledge and the senses. In The Advancement of Learning, after considering that the mind isn't "a clear and equal glass, wherein the beams of things...should reflect according to their true incidence" but is instead "like an enchanted glass, full of superstition and imposture," Bacon concludes that... | |
 | Peter Pesic - 2001 - 202 pages
...avoid blind presumption? The human mind is not a faithful mirror of the world, as Aristotle taught, but "an enchanted glass, full of superstition and imposture, if it be not delivered and reduced." Our vision is distorted and corrupt, ruled by idols of common delusion. Science can only... | |
 | Kate Aughterson - 2002 - 628 pages
...For the mind of man is far from the namre of a clear and equal glass, wherein the heams of titings should reflect according to their true incidence;...like an enchanted glass, full of superstition and imposmre, if it lie not delivered and reduced. For this purpose let us consider the false appearances... | |
 | Robert L. Perkins - 2002 - 400 pages
...compared to an unreliable mirror: "The mind of man is far from the nature of a dear and equal glass, where the beams of things should reflect according to their...superstition and imposture, if it be not delivered and reduced," sc. by due method. John Locke only says that it is like a mirror in that it cannot refuse,... | |
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