 | James Anthony Froude, John Tulloch - 1866 - 860 halaman
...colleet and use ; the reasoners resemble spiders, who make cobwebs out of their own substance. But tho bee takes a middle course, it gathers its material...by a power of its own. Not unlike this is the true busincss of philosophy. It is happily a rare mode of assailing the reputation of a writer, to paraphrase... | |
 | Thomas Fowler - 1881 - 220 halaman
...1. 372, &c.) and of the Christian Fathers towards those who maintained the existence of Antipodes. reasoners resemble spiders, who make cobwebs out of...by a power of its own. Not unlike this is the true mode in which philosophy works. For it neither relies solely or chiefly on the powers of the mind,... | |
 | Frank Pierrepont Graves - 1910 - 360 halaman
...substance. But the bee takes a middle course ; it gathers its material from the flowers of the garden and the field, but transforms and digests it by a power of its own. Not unlike that is the true business of philosophy ; for it neither relies solely or chiefly on the powers of... | |
 | Frank Pierrepont Graves - 1910 - 358 halaman
...substance. But the bee takes a middle course ; it gathers its material from the flowers of the garden and the field, but transforms and digests it by a power of its own. Not unlike that is the true business of philosophy ; for it neither relies solely or chiefly on the powers of... | |
 | Frank Pierrepont Graves - 1912 - 314 halaman
...together account very largely for the ill success of science in the past. He declares : — garden and the field, but transforms and digests it by a power of its own. Not unlike that is the true business of philosophy; for it neither relies solely or chiefly on the powers of the... | |
 | 1918 - 1258 halaman
...substance. But the bee takes the middle course ; it gather its material fioni the flowers of the garden and the field, but transforms and digests it by a power of its own. Nut unlike this is the true business of philosophy : for it neither relies solely or chiefly on the... | |
 | Youlan Feng - 1924 - 290 halaman
...end of human knowledge. To use Bacon's metaphor, the business of philosophy is like the bee, that " gathers its material from the flowers of the garden...transforms and digests it by a power of its own." 2 But when the understanding has discovered the cause, how does it know that this is the true one ?... | |
 | Felix Emmanuel Schelling - 1927 - 520 halaman
...^ which all men practise" that Bacon proposed; in his own • , happy illustration: " • ... *• The men of experiment are like the ant; they only...flowers of the garden and of the field, but transforms Snd ,* . digests it by a power of its own. Not unlike this is the true business » . of philosophy;... | |
 | 1969 - 164 halaman
...probably never dreamed that man would have to wage war against insects. Yet the allusion is there: "Those who have handled sciences have been either...but transforms and digests it by a power of its own. . . . Therefore from a closer and purer league between these two faculties, the experimental and the... | |
 | Peter Gay - 1995 - 596 halaman
...experimenters to ants who "only collect and use." His ideal natural philosopher was the bee, gathering "its material from the flowers of the garden and of the field" and digesting it "by a power of its own."9 For his part, Descartes the rationalist knew that he could... | |
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The men of experiment are like the ant; they only collect and use: the reasoners resemble spiders, who make cobwebs out of their own substance. But the bee takes a middle course, it gathers its material from the flowers of the garden and of the field,... 
