 | 1852 - 446 pages
...hypothesis may possibly be free from some of the objections with which it has justly been assailed. But in approaching the forbidden limits of human knowledge,...caution and circumspection. Man's speculations should bo subdued from all rashness in the immediate presence of the Creator, and a wise philosophy should... | |
 | 1852 - 460 pages
...hypothesis may possibly be free from some of the objections with which it has justly been assailed. But in approaching the forbidden limits of human knowledge,...Man's speculations should be subdued from all rashness in the immediate presence of the Creator, and a wise philosophy should beware lest it strengthen the... | |
 | 1852 - 450 pages
...hypothesis may possibly be free from some of the objections with which it has justly been assailed. But in approaching the forbidden limits of human knowledge,...Man's speculations should be subdued from all rashness in the immediate presence of the Creator, and a wise philosophy should beware lest it strengthen the... | |
 | Thomas William Webb - 1859 - 274 pages
...reduced to extreme thinness. rather denser than water, adding in the spirit of a true philosopher, " Man's speculations should be subdued from all rashness...extravagance in the immediate presence of the Creator." The transit of the rings over a considerable star would perhaps give us some farther information; but... | |
 | Thomas William Webb - 1873 - 378 pages
...or streams of a fluid rather denser than water, adding, in the spirit of a true philosopher, ' Man-s speculations should be subdued from all rashness and...extravagance in the immediate presence of the Creator.' An idea suggested by Cassini II., that it may consist of a multitude of satellites, has been ingeniously... | |
 | Merle Eugene Curti - 970 pages
...reputation as the greatest of nineteenth-century American mathematicians, the Harvard scholar declared: ... in approaching the forbidden limits of human knowledge,...should be subdued from all rashness and extravagance ifl the immediate presence of the Creator. And a wise philosophy will beware lest it strengthen the... | |
 | 1851 - 376 pages
...with which it has been justly assailed. But in approaching the forbidden limits of human knowle e, it is becoming to tread with caution and circumspection....extravagance in the immediate presence of the Creator. And * Quilina, 320. t Asir. Journ., II. 1Э. a wise philosophy will beware lest it strengthen the arms... | |
 | CHARLES C. LITTLE & JAMES BROWN. - 1851 - 1092 pages
...with which it has been justly assailed. But in approaching the forbidden limits of human knowle e, it is becoming to tread with caution and circumspection. Man's speculations should be «ubdued from all rashness and extravagance in the immediate presence of the Creator. And a wise philosophy... | |
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... assailed. But in approaching the forbidden limits of human knowledge, it is becoming to tread with caution and circumspection. Man's speculations should be subdued from all rashness and extravagance in the immediate presence of the Creator. 