 | 1873 - 800 pages
...of Solomon " (as Bacon quaintly termed it), " the end of which is the knowledge of causes and of the secret motions of things, and the enlarging of the...human empire to the effecting of all things possible." While we have endeavored to show that abstract science is entitled to high appreciation and liberal... | |
 | Cassell, ltd - 1876 - 466 pages
...are assigned. And fourthly, the ordinances and rites which we observe. " The end of our foundation conjure " The preparations and instruments arc these : we have large and deep caves of several depths ; the... | |
 | Hippolyte Taine - 1876 - 430 pages
...discovery of remedies, the preservation of food. The end of our foundation, says his principal personage, 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. Ami this " possible " is infinite. How did... | |
 | Francis Bacon (visct. St. Albans.) - 1877 - 782 pages
...are assigned ; and fourthly the ordinances and rites which we observe. " The end of our foundation is the knowledge of causes and secret motions of things,...human empire, to the effecting of all things possible. " The preparations and instruments are these. We have large and deep caves of several depths : the... | |
 | 1888 - 738 pages
...mankind over the world " ; " a restitution of man to the sovereignty of nature " ; " the enlarging the bounds of human empire to the effecting of all things possible." The ethics of the industrial education is expressed in two words used by Macaulay as descriptive of... | |
 | Alfred Hix Welsh - 1882 - 558 pages
...worthy of the name, Solomon's House, 'the end of whose foundation is the knowledge of causes and the secret motions of things, and the enlarging of the...human empire to the effecting of all things possible.' His Motive. — The intense conviction that knowledge, in its existing state, was barren of practical... | |
 | Alfred Hix Welsh - 1882 - 1108 pages
...worthy of the name, Solomon's House, ' the end of whose foundation is the knowledge of causes and the secret motions of things, and the enlarging of the...bounds of human empire to the effecting of all things possible.'THa Motive. — The intense conviction that knowledge, in its existing state, was barren... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1882 - 570 pages
...we observe. " The end of our foundation is the knowledge of causes and secret motions of things,"1 and the enlarging of the bounds of human empire, to the effecting of all things . possible. " The preparations and instruments are these. We have large and deep caves of several depths: the deepest,... | |
 | John Michels (Journalist) - 1919 - 688 pages
...PUBLIC HEALTHi ' ' THE end of our foundation is the knowledge of causes, and secret motions of things ; ,the enlarging of the bounds of human empire, to the effecting of all things possible." In these words Francis Bacon in "The New Atalantis ' ' summed up the aims of what he called "Salomon's... | |
 | Royal Society (Great Britain) - 1884 - 558 pages
...— he, whose countenance was " as if he pitied men," — declares that the end of that foundation is " the knowledge of causes and secret motions of...human empire to the effecting of all things possible." I think that the Chancellor would have acknowledged the New Natural History Museum to be a goodly wing... | |
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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. 
