 | Sir Sidney Lee - 1904 - 384 pages
...this college of science is to * The work reach ' the knowledge of causes, and secret mo- of the tions of things, and the enlarging of the bounds of human empire to the effecting of all things possible.' That is the motto of the great temple. There is much that is fantastic in the sequel, but it illustrates... | |
 | Simon Somerville Laurie - 1905 - 280 pages
...fourthly, the ordinances and rites which we observe. "The End of our Foundation is the knowledge of the Causes, and secret motions of things; and the enlarging...Empire, to the effecting of all things possible." He then proceeds to develope his conception of a great Institution devoted to Knowledge with a view... | |
 | Sir William Huggins - 1906 - 214 pages
...ROYAL SOCIETY TO THE STATE, AND THE RESPONSIBLE PUBLIC DUTIES WHICH REST PERMANENTLY UPON THE SOCIETY. "The end of our foundation is the knowledge of causes,...empire, to the effecting of all things possible." — F. BACON (New Atlantis'). From the Address delivered at the Anniversary Meeting on November 30,... | |
 | SIR WILLIAM HUGGINS - 1906 - 230 pages
...ROYAL SOCIETY TO THE STATE, AND THE RESPONSIBLE PUBLIC DUTIES WHICH REST PERMANENTLY UPON THE SOCIETY. "The end of our foundation is the knowledge of causes,...bounds of human empire, to the effecting of all things possible."—F. BACON (New Atlantis}. From the Address delivered at the Anniversary Meeting on November... | |
 | Samuel Jones Gee - 1908 - 372 pages
...Cowley's idea. Cowley's intention was the same as that of Salomon's House in Bacon's New Atlantis: 'The end of our foundation is the knowledge of causes...human empire to the effecting of all things possible.' Cowley's main object was the advancement of learning by research. His professors were to be devoted... | |
 | Friedrich Wackwitz - 1909 - 88 pages
...Luftschiffen, Unterseebooten, noch ehe sie erfunden waren. Der Zweck der naturwissenschaftlichen Akademie ist: the knowledge of causes, and secret motions of things,...human empire, to the effecting of all things possible; kurz, Herrschaft über die Natur wird erstrebt. ') The works of Francis Bacon, herausgeg. von J. Spedding,... | |
 | Ernest Norton Henderson - 1910 - 624 pages
...foreshadowed in the dream of "Saloman's House" or the "College of the Six Days' Work," of which he says : — "The end of our Foundation is the knowledge of Causes and secret motions of things and the enlargement of the bounds of Human Empire, to the effecting of all things possible." 1 It is true that... | |
 | Yuri Balashov, Alexander Rosenberg - 2002 - 544 pages
..."Salomon's House" where all the activities of research have been concentrated. The visitor is told: "The end of our Foundation is the knowledge of causes...the enlarging of the bounds of human empire to the affecting of all things possible."2 The "Father" of the House describes the caves where mining experiments... | |
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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. 
