 | United States. Bureau of Education - 1895 - 1082 páginas
...to read a line of poetry; Shakespeare nauseated him, and he had entirely lost his taste for music. " My mind," he says, " seems to have become a kind of...grinding general laws out of large collections of facts. If I had to live my life over again I would have made a rule to read some poetry and listen to some... | |
 | Arthur Cayley Headlam - 1888 - 532 páginas
...engrossed him and encouraged him by their fruitful results. And so he himself describes his mind as having become a kind of machine for grinding general laws out of large collections of facts. He lost his pleasure in poetry and music and painting ; he came, in his own words, not to be able to... | |
 | 1919 - 714 páginas
...mind seems to have become a kind of machine for grinding out general laws out of a large collection of facts ; but why this should have caused the atrophy of that part of my brain alone on which the higher tastes depend I cannot conceive. If I had to live my life again... | |
 | John Michels - 1925 - 960 páginas
...periods of complete rest and sanitarium treatment, can one wonder that, in his own words, his mind should become a "kind of machine for grinding general laws out of large collections of facts," and that there should be a corresponding "atrophy of that part of the brain . . . on which the higher... | |
 | Charles Darwin - 1887 - 420 páginas
...they may contain), and essays on all sorts of subjects interest me as much as ever they did. My mind seems to have become a kind of machine for grinding...that part of the brain alone, on which the higher tastes depend, I cannot conceive. A man with a mind more highly organised or better constituted than... | |
 | Charles Darwin - 1887 - 588 páginas
...they may contain), and essays on all sorts of subjects interest me as much as ever they did. My mind seems to have become a kind of machine for grinding...that part of the brain alone, on which the higher tastes depend, I cannot conceive. A man with a mind more highly organised or better constituted than... | |
 | Charles Darwin - 1887 - 570 páginas
...they may contain), and essays on all sorts of subjects interest me as much as ever they did. My mind seems to have become a kind of machine for grinding...that part of the brain alone, on which the higher tastes depend, I cannot conceive. A man with a mind more highly organised or better constituted than... | |
 | 1887 - 604 páginas
...they may contain), and essays on all sorts of subjects, interest mo as much as they ever did. My mind seems to have become a kind of machine for grinding general laws out of a Inrge collection of facts, but why this should have caused the atrophy of that part of the brain... | |
 | 1888 - 898 páginas
...intolerably dull that it nauseated me. I have almost lost my taste for pictures or music. . . . My mind seems to have become a kind of machine for grinding...of that part of the brain alone on which the higher tastes depend, I can not conceive. ... If I had to live my life again, I •would have made a rule... | |
 | William Parker Cutler - 1888 - 1034 páginas
...they may contain), and essays on all sorts of subjects interest me as much as ever they did. My mind seems to have become a kind of machine for grinding...that part of the brain alone, on which the higher tastes depend, I cannot conceive. A man with a mind more highly organised or better constituted than... | |
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My mind seems to have become a kind of machine for grinding general laws out of large collections of facts ; but why this should have caused the atrophy of that part of the brain alone on which the higher tastes depend, I cannot conceive. 
