| Columbia College (New York, N.Y.) - 1865 - 128 Seiten
...conclusion of experience," is his language, "that a little or superficial knowledge of philosophy [natural philosophy] may incline the mind of man to atheism, but a farther proceeding therein doth bring a man back again to religion : for in the entrance of philosophy, when the second causes which are... | |
| Nathaniel Holmes - 1867 - 670 Seiten
...from immortality (if that were possible) to the meanest mechanical practice." * He well knew, that " in the entrance of philosophy, when the second causes,...which are next unto the senses, do offer themselves to the mind of man, if it dwell and stay there, it may induce some oblivion of the highest cause."... | |
| Francis Bacon - 1868 - 472 Seiten
...is true that : 'Certainely* {1612}. [7] Mans minde : omitted in MS. Comp. Adv. of L. i. i, § 3 : " It is an assured truth, and a conclusion of experience, that a little or superficiall knowledge of Philosophic may encline the minde of Man to Atheisme, but a further proceeding... | |
| Francis Bacon - 1868 - 458 Seiten
...true that : ' Certainely' (1612). [7] Mans minde: omitted in MS. Comp. Adv. of L. 1. 1, § 3 : " It U an assured truth, and a conclusion of experience, that a little or superliciall knowledge of Philosophie may encline the minde of Man to Atheisme, but a further proceeding... | |
| Francis Bacon - 1885 - 438 Seiten
...nothing \ else but to offer to the author of truth the unclean , : sacrifice of a lie. But further, it is an assured truth, and ' a conclusion of experience,...knowledge of philosophy may incline the mind of man to/ 1V y i atheism, but a further proceeding therein doth bring the mind back again to religion. For in... | |
| William Kitchen Parker - 1885 - 290 Seiten
...; and nothing else but to offer to the Author of Truth the unclean sacrifice of a lie. But farther, it is an assured truth, and a conclusion of experience, that a little of superficial knowledge of philosophy may incline the mind of man to atheism, but a farther proceeding... | |
| Harvey Goodwin - 1886 - 160 Seiten
...itself worthy of its divine origin. CHAPTER II. THE POINT OF VIEW PHILOSOPHICAL. " It is an assumed truth and a conclusion of experience, that a little...philosophy may incline the mind of man to atheism, but a further proceeding therein doth bring the mind back again to religion ; for in the entrance of philosophy,... | |
| Franklin Verzelius Newton Painter - 1886 - 378 Seiten
...work it." Bacon held learning to be conducive to religious faith. "It is an assured truth," he says, "and a conclusion of experience, that a little or...philosophy may incline the mind of man to atheism, but a further proceeding therein doth bring the mind back again to religion ; for, in the entrance of philosophy,... | |
| Francis Bacon - 1887 - 882 Seiten
...; and nothing else but to offer to the author of truth the unclean sacrifice of a lie. But farther, it is an assured truth and a conclusion of experience,...but a farther proceeding therein doth bring the mind vx*l <™*«TaT7): a corruption, according to the conjecture of Professor WH Thompson, of aC?ji^t/x^... | |
| George Dana Boardman - 1889 - 396 Seiten
...Bacon : • Advancemen^ It iB an assured truth and a conclusion of experience, that Booifl.™ "gl a little or superficial knowledge of philosophy may...which are next unto the senses, do offer themselves to the mind of man, if it dwell and stay there, it may induce some oblivion of the highest cause ;... | |
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