 | Samuel Latham Mitchill - 1802 - 514 pages
...shall not we unite our efforts to fill up that dreary blank left in science by the ancients ? And ' as man, who is the servant and interpreter of nature, can act and understand no farther than he has, either in operation or in contemplation, observed of the method and order of nature.f... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1815 - 270 pages
...APHORISMS FOB INTERPRETING NATURE, AND EXTENDING THE EMPIRE OP MAN OVER T«E CREATION. APHORISM I. jViAN, who is the servant and interpreter of nature, can act and understand no farther than he has, either in operation, or in contemplation, observed of the method and order of... | |
 | Edward William Grinfield - 1818 - 634 pages
...man as he actually exists in civil society. Hence, * See Part II. Sect. 28. as Bacon expresses it, " Man, who is the servant and interpreter of nature, can act and understand no farther than he has either in operation or in contemplation observed the method and order of nature."... | |
 | Henry Southern - 1821 - 398 pages
...in the year 1620, when Bacon was Chancellor. It is written in aphorisms, and thus begins : — " 1. Man, who is the servant and interpreter of nature, can act and understand no farther than he has, either in operation or in contemplation, observed of the method and order of nature,... | |
 | 1821 - 400 pages
...in the year 1620, when Bacon was Chancellor. It is written in aphorisms, and thus begins : — " 1. Man, who is the servant and interpreter of nature, can act and understand no farther than he has, either in operation or in contemplation, observed of the method and order of nature,... | |
 | Henry Southern, Sir Nicholas Harris Nicolas - 1821 - 402 pages
...in the year 1620, when Bacon was Chancellor. It is written in aphorisms, and thus begins : — " 1. 'Man, who is the servant and interpreter of nature, can act and understand no farther than he has, either in operation or in contemplation, observed of the method and order of nature,... | |
 | 1821 - 398 pages
...in the year 1620, when Bacon was Chancellor. It is written in aphorisms, and thus begins : — " 1. Man, who is the servant and interpreter of nature, can act and understand no farther than he has, either in operation or in contemplation, observed of the method and order of nature,... | |
 | 1833 - 886 pages
...which they appear to demand, keeping always in remembrance the beautiful aphorism of Lord Bacon, " Man, who is the servant and interpreter of nature,...understand no further than he has, either in operation or in contemplation, observed of the method and order of nature." 33. The notion that a lightning rod... | |
 | 1837 - 770 pages
...aphorism with which the great father of modern philosophy opens his " Novum Organum," runs thus : — " Man, who is the servant and interpreter of nature, can act and understand no farther than he has, either in operation or in contemplation, observed of the method and order of nature.*1... | |
 | Cuthbert William Johnson - 1840 - 84 pages
...The often-quoted first aphorism of Bacon, in his Novum Organum, here applies with the greatest force: "Man, who is the servant and interpreter of nature, can act, and understand no farther than he has, either in operation or contemplation, observed of the method and order of nature."... | |
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who is the servant and interpreter of nature, can act and understand no further than he has, either in operation or in contemplation, observed of the method and order of nature. 
