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" there is nothing in the mind that was not first in the senses... "
Essays on Educational Reformers - Page 71
by Robert Hebert Quick - 1886 - 330 pages
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The Christian Ambassador, Volume 10

Theology - 1872 - 416 pages
...the senses are as spiritual as the soul itself, being properties of the soul and not of the body. " There is nothing in the mind that was not first in the senses." " No," replies Leibnitz, " nothing except the mind itself." The senses to he despised ! Are they not...
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Psychology for Teachers with Suggestions on Method: For Use in High Schools ...

James N. Patrick - Educational psychology - 1901 - 350 pages
...developing the conceptual and reasoning powers. The well-established fact, the easily proved fact, that " There is nothing in the mind that was not first in the senses," is sufficient argument for training the senses during the first years of school life. The teacher that...
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Preacher and Homiletic Monthly, Volume 55

1908 - 572 pages
...axiom in psychology to-day is "No psychosis without a corresponding neurosis." To this might be added, "There is nothing in the mind that was not first in the senses," and sound mind in a sound body, and a sound soul in a sound mind. Individuality is largely the product...
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The Musician's Mind

Antoinette Feleky - Music - 1920 - 116 pages
...development is a gradual growth which begins with sensation and ends in abstract thinking. In fact there is nothing in the mind that was not first in the senses. Sensation, according to most psychologists, is a simple fact of consciousness, and resists further...
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The American Journal of Sociology, Volume 27

Albion W. Small, Ellsworth Faris, Ernest Watson Burgess, Herbert Blumer - Electronic journals - 1922 - 874 pages
...philosophique, March-April, 1921. MSE The Intimate Senses as Sources of Wisdom. — The ten special senses: There is nothing in the mind that was not first in the ten or more senses: sight, hearing, taste, smell, touch (pressure), pain, temperature, equilibrium...
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Psychology Applied to Education: A Series of Lectures on the Theory ...

James Ward - Educational psychology - 1926 - 212 pages
...sufficiently, at every opportunity, upon the necessity of always keeping this fact of growth in view. "There is nothing in the mind that was not first in the senses," said a scholastic philosopher. " Nothing," added Leibniz, " but the mind itself." The additional clause...
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The New Century Book of Facts

Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1928 - 1958 pages
...to make the sense-percepts clear and distinct, and to develop the conceptual and reasoning powers. " There is nothing in the mind that was not first in the senses." SENSIBILITY. The power of the mind to feel, which feeling includes all pleasurable and painful conditions...
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The why of Music: Dialogues in an Unexplored Region of Appreciation

Donald Nivison Ferguson - Music - 1969 - 317 pages
...prosody I think they call the Molossus. Above it, since the texture isn't really polyphonic, there's a * There is nothing in the mind that was not first in the senses. rather rhapsodic melodic line. Perhaps it seems rhapsodic because it almost always moves by skip, instead...
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The Age of Reform, 1250-1550: An Intellectual and Religious History of Late ...

Steven Ozment - History - 1980 - 473 pages
...with sensory experience of the visible, physical world. According to Aquinas's epistemological maxim: "There is nothing in the mind that was not first in the senses" (Nihil in intellectu quod prius non fuerit in sensu),71 a most difficult axiom for Plato and Augustine...
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On Louis Simpson: Depths Beyond Happiness

Hank Lazer - 1988 - 412 pages
...senses: "Poets embody their thoughts in images, words that appeal to the senses for, as John Locke said, 'There is nothing in the mind that was not first in the senses.' " An Introduction to Poetry also demonstrates the vast amount of learning behind Simpson's own poetry,...
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