 In our conceptions and reasonings regarding the forces of nature, we perpetually make use of symbols which, when they possess a high representative value, we dignify with the name of theories. Thus prompted by certain analogies, we ascribe electrical...  Inventors at Work: With Chapters on Discovery - Page 355by George Iles - 1906 - 503 pagesFull view - About this book
 | 1868 - 472 pages
...conceptions and reasonings regarding the forces of nature, we perpetually make use of symbols which, when they possess a high representative value, we dignify...intellect for a time, but they also circumscribe it, and by and by, when the mind has grown too large for its lodging, it often finds difficulty in breaking... | |
 | Royal Institution of Great Britain - 1869 - 646 pages
...conceptions and reasonings regarding the forces of nature, we perpetually make use of symbols which, when they possess a high representative value we dignify...intellect for a time, but they also circumscribe it, and by and by, when the mind has grown too large for its lodging, it often finds difficulty in breaking... | |
 | Royal Institution of Great Britain - 1869 - 636 pages
...conceptions and reasonings regarding the forces of nature, wo perpetually make use of symbols which, when they possess a high representative value we dignify...certain analogies we ascribe electrical phenomena to tho action of a peculiar fluid, sometimes flowing, sometimes at rest. Such conceptions have their advantages... | |
 | John Tyndall - 1870 - 238 pages
...conceptions and reasonings regarding the forces of nature, we perpetually make use of symbols which, when they possess a high representative value we dignify...also circumscribe it, and by-and-by, when the mind F has grown too large for its lodging, it often finds difficulty in breaking down the walls of what... | |
 | John Tyndall - 1870 - 452 pages
...conceptions and reasonings regarding the forces of nature we perpetually make use of symbols, which, when they possess a high representative value, we dignify with the name of theories. We observe, for example, heat propagating itself through a bar of metal, and help ourselves to a conception... | |
 | John Tyndall - 1873 - 202 pages
...conceptions and reasonings regarding the forces of nature, we perpetually make use of symbols which, when they possess a high representative value we dignify...a peculiar fluid, sometimes flowing, sometimes at rests Such conceptions have their advantages and their disadvantages; they afford peaceful lodging... | |
 | John Tyndall - 1877 - 208 pages
...conceptions and reasonings regarding the forces of nature, we perpetually make use of symbols which, when they possess a high representative value we dignify...flowing, sometimes at rest. Such conceptions have their ad vantages and their disadvantages ; they afford peaceful lodging to the intellect for a time, but... | |
 | 1885 - 276 pages
...his growing knowledge must have found it. To quote Tyhdall's happy metaphor, " Symbolic conceptions afford peaceful lodging to the intellect for a time, but they also circumscribe it, and by and by, when the mind has grown too large for its lodging, it often finds difficulty in breaking... | |
 | Leslie Stephen, Sir Sidney Lee - 1889 - 468 pages
...conceptions and reasonings regarding the forces of nature we perpetually make use of symbols which, when they possess a high representative value, we dignify...intellect for a time, but they also circumscribe it, and by-arid-by, when the mind has grown too large for its lodging, it often iinds difficulty in breaking... | |
 | Leslie Stephen - 1889 - 474 pages
...conceptions and reasonings regarding the forces of nature we perpetually make use of symbols which, when they possess a high representative value, we dignify...have their advantages and their disadvantages ; they aflord peaceful lodging to the intellect for a time, but they also circumscribe it, and by-and-by,... | |
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