 | 1925 - 610 pages
...profound kind of fallacies in the mind of man, which I find not observed or inquired at all. .... For the mind of man is far from the nature of a clear...be not delivered and reduced. For this purpose let us consider the false appearances that are imposed upon us by the general nature of the mind. . . .... | |
 | Logan Pearsall Smith - 1928 - 280 pages
...man's proper good; and the only immortal thing was given to our mortality to use. Ben Jonson, 397. THE mind of man is far from the nature of a clear and equal glass, . . . nay, it is rather like an enchanted glass, full of superstition and imposture. Bacon, A, 200.... | |
 | 1883 - 206 pages
...in one of his great works, " The Advancement of Learning," that the mind of man is far from being of the nature of a clear and equal glass, wherein the...things should reflect according to their true incidence ; " it is rather like an enchanted glass full of superstition and imposture, if it be not delivered... | |
 | Alfred Edward Housman - 1969 - 64 pages
...43 faculty, and that is neither universal nor even commonly found. The mind of man, as Bacon says, 'is far from the nature of a clear and equal glass,...and imposture, if it be not delivered and reduced'. But one clue I think I can commend to you which will lead in the right direction, though not all the... | |
 | J. C. Davis - 1983 - 444 pages
...to the 'dulness, incompetency and deceptions of the senses'.98 Elsewhere, he found the mind of man 'far from the nature of a clear and equal glass, wherein...superstition and imposture, if it be not delivered and reduced'.99 It was against the shortcomings of the mind that Bacon warned men in his theory of the... | |
 | G. Heath King - 1986 - 214 pages
...(einem Zauberspiegel), in dem sich eine Vielzahl von nicht-rationalen Strömungen trifft, als einem „clear and equal glass wherein the beams of things should reflect according to their true incidence".149 Im Rahmen dieser neuen kritischen Haltung gegenüber der alleinigen Vorherrschaft der... | |
 | Ekbert Faas - 1986 - 244 pages
...denounces the human mind as "a vagabond, dangerous, and fond-hardy implement,"47 while Bacon calls it "an enchanted glass, full of superstition and imposture, if it be not delivered and reduced."48 To the British philosopher, this distorting mirror was compounded of four major fallacies,... | |
 | Susan Bordo - 1987 - 162 pages
...THE PERVASIVENESS OF CARTESIAN ANXIETY; OR, TAKING CARTESIAN DOUBT SERIOUSLY The mind of man . . . far from the nature of a clear and equal glass, wherein...beams of things should reflect according to their true incidences, is rather like an enchanted glass, full of superstition and imposture, if it be not delivered.... | |
 | Robert Proctor - 1991 - 364 pages
...learning, Bacon produced his famous observation that the mind of man "is far from the nature of a clean and equal glass, wherein the beams of things should...enchanted glass, full of superstition and imposture, if it not be delivered and reduced."1 To "deliver and reduce" these distortions of the human mind was the... | |
 | Jules David Law - 1993 - 282 pages
...Advancement of Learning and New Atlantis (London: Oxford University Press, 1969). Bacon writes: "For the mind of man is far from the nature of a clear...and imposture, if it be not delivered and reduced" (153). Bacon's critique is considerably different from Locke's, however, because the Renaissance tropes... | |
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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... 
