Literature and Science: An Anthology from English and American Literature, 1600-1900Grant McColley Provides "representative illustrations of the extensive and varied literature, often of the highest quality, which is based directly or indirectly upon science" -- Preface. |
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... understanding , and throw all into con- fusion , and lead men away into numberless empty controversies and idle ... understanding may be duly cautioned . 45. The human understanding is of its own nature prone to sup- pose the existence ...
... understanding , and throw all into con- fusion , and lead men away into numberless empty controversies and idle ... understanding may be duly cautioned . 45. The human understanding is of its own nature prone to sup- pose the existence ...
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... understanding even and clear . 59. But the Idols of the Market - place are the most troublesome of all ; idols which have crept into the understanding through the alliances of words and names . For men believe that their reason governs ...
... understanding even and clear . 59. But the Idols of the Market - place are the most troublesome of all ; idols which have crept into the understanding through the alliances of words and names . For men believe that their reason governs ...
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... understanding comes to be furnished with them . Secondly . I shall endeavour to show what knowledge the under- standing hath by those ideas , and the certainty , evidence , and extent of it . Thirdly . I shall make some inquiry into the ...
... understanding comes to be furnished with them . Secondly . I shall endeavour to show what knowledge the under- standing hath by those ideas , and the certainty , evidence , and extent of it . Thirdly . I shall make some inquiry into the ...
Contents
THE SEVENTEENTH CENTURY | 1 |
FRANCIS BACON Selections | 11 |
Experimental Philosophy Selections | 75 |
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