 The men of experiment are like the ant, they only collect and use; the reasoners resemble spiders, who make cobwebs out of their own substance. But the bee takes a middle course: it gathers its material from the flowers of the garden and of the field,...  English Philosophers and Schools of Philosophy - Page 34by James Seth - 1912 - 372 pagesFull view - About this book
 | 1891 - 492 pages
...and use. The theorists are like the spiders who make cobwebs out of their own substance. But the bee takes a middle course: it gathers its material from the flowers of the garden and the field, but transforms and digests them by a power of its own. Not unlike this is the true business... | |
 | American Association for the Advancement of Science - 1898 - 772 pages
...and use : the reasoners resemble spiders, who make cobwebs out of their own substance. But the bee takes a middle course ; it gathers its material from...business of philosophy, for it neither relies solely nor chiefly on the powers of the mind, nor does it take the matter which it gathers from natural history... | |
 | American Association for the Advancement of Science - 1898 - 764 pages
...and use : the reasoners resemble spiders, who make cobwebs out of their own substance. But the bee takes a middle course ; it gathers its material from...business of philosophy, for it neither relies solely nor chiefly on the powers of the mind, nor does it take the matter which it gathers from natural history... | |
 | American Association for the Advancement of Science - 1898 - 766 pages
...and use : the reasoners resemble spiders, who make cobwebs out of their own substance. But the bee takes a middle course ; it gathers its material from...business of philosophy, for it neither relies solely nor chiefly on the powers of the mind, nor does it take the matter which it gathers from natural history... | |
 | American Association for the Advancement of Science - 1898 - 762 pages
...and use : the reasoners resemble spiders, who make cobwebs out of their own substance. But the bee takes a middle course ; it gathers its material from...business of philosophy, for it neither relies solely nor chiefly on the powers of the mind, nor does it take the matter which it gathers from natural history... | |
 | Alexander Campbell Fraser - 1899 - 400 pages
...spider ; they make intellectual cobwebs out of their present possessions. The bee rightly takes the middle course : it gathers its material from the flowers of the garden and the field, but it transforms them by a power of its own. The composition which unites the past and... | |
 | Augustus Hopkins Strong - 1907 - 1218 pages
...use. Tho abstract reasonere arc like spiders, who make cobwebs out of their own substance. But the bee takes a middle course: it gathers its material from the flowers of the garden and the Held, while it transforms and digests what it gathers by a power of its own. Not unlike this is... | |
 | Frank Pierrepont Graves - 1910 - 360 pages
...collect and use : the reasoners resemble spiders ; who make cobwebs out of their substance. But the bee takes a middle course ; it gathers its material from the flowers of the garden and the field, but transforms and digests it by a power of its own. Not unlike that is the true business... | |
 | Frank Pierrepont Graves - 1910 - 358 pages
...collect and use : the reasoners resemble spiders ; who make cobwebs out of their substance. But the bee takes a middle course ; it gathers its material from the flowers of the garden and the field, but transforms and digests it by a power of its own. Not unlike that is the true business... | |
 | Frank Pierrepont Graves - 1912 - 314 pages
...together account very largely for the ill success of science in the past. He declares : — garden and the field, but transforms and digests it by a power of its own. Not unlike that is the true business of philosophy; for it neither relies solely or chiefly on the powers of the... | |
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