 | William Ralph Boyce Gibson, Augusta Klein - 1908 - 520 páginas
...not surprising to read the following : ' My mind seems to have become [at seventy-two years of age] a kind of machine for grinding general laws out of large collections of facts.' On the other hand, this Baconian method was not adopted to the exclusion of the ' Newtonian.' ' I have... | |
 | William Ralph Boyce Gibson, Augusta Klein - 1908 - 524 páginas
...not surprising to read the following : ' My mind seems to have become [at seventy-two years of age] a kind of machine for grinding general laws out of large collections of facts.' On the other hand, this Baconian method was not adopted to the exclusion of the ' Newtonian.' ' I have... | |
 | George Iles - 1909 - 202 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... | |
 | Thomas Roberts Slicer - 1909 - 268 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...of that part of the brain alone on which the higher tastes depend, I cannot conceive. A man with a mind more highly organized or better constituted than... | |
 | Laurie Magnus - 1909 - 440 páginas
...resigned it to his imperious appetite for facts. ' My mind', he said in his Recollections (1876), ' seems to have become a kind of machine for grinding...of that part of the brain alone on which the higher tastes depend, I cannot conceive. The loss of these tastes is a loss of happiness, and may possibly... | |
 | Grenville Kleiser - 1909 - 456 páginas
...lost my taste for pictures or music. . . ^ My mind seems to have become a kind of machine for grmding general laws out of large collections of facts; but...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 to... | |
 | Burton Raffel - 2010 - 173 páginas
...lamentable loss of the higher aesthetic tastes" is both regrettable and, to him, incomprehensible. "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." And he adds, self-deprecatingly, "A man with a mind more highly... | |
 | Eva T. H. Brann - 1991 - 828 páginas
...A telling cri de coeur from Darwin's Autobiography laments his inability to read poetry: [My] mind seems to have become a kind of machine for grinding general laws out of large collections of facts. . . . On the other hand, novels, which are works of the imagination, though not of a very high order,... | |
 | Alan L. Mackay - 1991 - 312 páginas
...given in this volume should shock the religious feelings of anyone. Origin of ipeciet 1859 12 My mind seems to have become a kind of machine for grinding general laws out of large collections of facts. Autobiography 1859 13 Why is thought being a secretion of the brain more wonderful than gravity a property... | |
 | Edwin Webb - 1992 - 184 páginas
...expressed it, that 'something had withered in him'.7 The evidence is in Darwin's own Autobiography: 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. . . If I had to live my life again, I would have made a rule to read... | |
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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. 
