 | George Moore - 1866 - 392 pages
...all in them; and that the having of general ideas is that which puts a perfect distinction between man and brutes, and is an excellency which the faculties of brutes do by no means attain to.'—Locke, book ii. ch. ii. § 10. of awakening, by such sounds, similar feelings in creatures similarly... | |
 | Charles Wallwyn Radcliffe Cooke - 1866 - 74 pages
...contrivance or other. Mr Locke advances the opinion that the power of abstracting is not in brutes, and that the having of general ideas is that which puts a perfect distinction betwixt man and brutes. For my own part I cannot but think that the power of reflection, an inward sense as it were, which... | |
 | Rev. Henry Greene - 1866 - 496 pages
...and realization of that inward faculty which is called abstraction," but this, according to Locke, is " an excellency which the faculties of brutes do by no means attain to." | There is yet a further evidence of this preordained superiority in that capacity for progress... | |
 | George Moore - 1866 - 396 pages
...this, I think, I may be positive in, that the power of abstracting is not at all in them ; and that the having of general ideas is that which puts a perfect distinction between man and brutes, and is an excellency which the faculties of brutes do by no means attain to.'... | |
 | David Page - 1867 - 238 pages
...Understanding, " I think I may be positive in, that the power of abstracting is not at all in them ; and that the having of general ideas is that which puts a perfect...which the faculties of brutes do by no means attain to." And Dr. H. Bischoff, in his Essay on the Difference between Man and Brutes, says, " It is impossible... | |
 | Charles Staniland Wake - 1868 - 364 pages
...affirms all language may be reduced. Following the dictum of Locke,* he asserts that, " the having general ideas is that which puts a perfect distinction...which the faculties of brutes do by no means attain to." He adds,f " If Locke is right in considering the having general ideas as the distinguishing feature... | |
 | Charles Dickens - 1868 - 680 pages
...comes nearest to us in sagacity." Locke says, "The power of abstracting is not at all in brutes ; and the having of general ideas is that which puts a perfect distinction between man and brutes. For it is evident we observe no footSteps in these of making use of general... | |
 | 1868 - 1236 pages
...comes nearest to us in sagacity." Locke says, " The power of abstracting is not at all in brutes ; and the having of general ideas is that which puts a perfect distinction between man and brutes. For it is evident we observe no footsteps in these of making use of general... | |
 | George Berkeley - 1871 - 478 pages
...that which puts the widest difference in point of understanding betwixt man and beast. Thus speaks he: 'The having of general ideas is that which puts a...betwixt man and brutes, and is an excellency which the facultys of brutes do by no means attain unto. For it is evident we observe no footsteps in them of... | |
 | George Berkeley - 1871 - 478 pages
...that which puts the widest difference in point of understanding betwixt man and beast. Thus speaks he: 'The having of general ideas is that which puts a...betwixt man and brutes, and is an excellency which the facultys of brutes do by no means attain unto. For it is evident we observe no footsteps in them of... | |
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For it is evident, we observe no footsteps in them, of making use of general signs for universal ideas; from which we have reason to imagine, that they have not the faculty of abstracting, or making general ideas, since they have no use of words, or any... 
