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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. "
The Philosophy of the Inductive Sciences: Founded Upon Their History - Page 432
by William Whewell - 1840
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The Essays and Other Prose Writings of Abraham Cowley

Abraham Cowley - 1915 - 416 pages
...founded by the lawgiver Solomona. Its aim was ' the finding out of the true nature of all things ', ' 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.' It was a great national college,...
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The Eagle: A Magazine, Volumes 37-38

1916 - 812 pages
...with one of the fathers of Solomon's House, a kind of scientific college, which aims at arriving at "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": he is much impressed with...
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The Rockefeller Foundation, a review for ... 1919-28

1920 - 584 pages
...purpose of the research institution which he made the center of his imagined paradise in a fabled island: "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." Three hundred years have passed...
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The Eagle: A Magazine Support by Members of St. John's College, Volumes 38-39

1917 - 688 pages
...with one of the fathers of Solomon's House, a kind of scientific college, which aims at arriving at " 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" : he is much impressed with...
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Science, Volume 49

John Michels (Journalist) - 1919 - 644 pages
...should be sent to The Editor of Science, Garrison-onHudson, NY THE UNIVERSITY AND PUBLIC HEALTH* ' ' 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...
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Science, Volume 49

John Michels (Journalist) - 1919 - 958 pages
...should be sent to The Editor of Science, Garriaon-onHudaon, NY THE UNIVERSITY AND 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...
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History of English Literature, Volume 1

Hippolyte Taine - 1920 - 476 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 Bnlarging of the bounds of human empire, to the effecting of all things possible. And this " possible...
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Pioneers of Modern Education 1600-1700

John William Adamson - 1921 - 320 pages
...fruit in the use of them)." "The end of our foundation," says one of the Fathers of Solomon's House, "is the knowledge of causes, and secret motions of things : and the enlarging the bounds of human empire, to the effecting of all things possible." To discharge this great office, the House employs...
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Shakespeare the Man and His Stage

Edmund Arnold Greening Lamborn, George Bagshawe Harrison - 1923 - 140 pages
...knowledge they would become as gods. ' The end of our foundation ', said the Father of Salomon's House, 1 ' 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.' The spirit of the age is reflected...
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An Introduction to the Logic of Reflection

Matthew Thompson McClure - 1925 - 512 pages
...of causes places one at the mercy of effects. Bacon further states the goal of science as follows : "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." * Let us, in the second place,...
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