 My mind seems to have become a kind of machine for grinding general laws out of large collections of facts ; but why this should have caused the atrophy of that part of the brain alone on which the higher tastes depend, I cannot conceive.  A College Course in Writing from Models - Page 358by Frances Campbell Berkeley Young - 1910 - 478 pagesFull view - About this book
 | 1919 - 714 pages
...mind seems to have become a kind of machine for grinding out general laws out of a large collection of facts ; but why this should have caused the atrophy of that part of my brain alone on which the higher tastes depend I cannot conceive. If I had to live my life again... | |
 | Charles Darwin - 1887 - 586 pages
...much as ever they did. My mind seems to have become a kind of machine for grinding general laws out of large collections of facts, but why this should have...depend, I cannot conceive. A man with a mind more highly organised or better constituted than mine, would not, I suppose, have thus suffered ; and if I had... | |
 | Charles Darwin - 1887 - 588 pages
...much as ever they did. My mind seems to have become a kind of machine for grinding general laws out of large collections of facts, but why this should have...depend, I cannot conceive. A man with a mind more highly organised or better constituted than mine, would not, I suppose, have thus suffered ; and if I had... | |
 | Charles Darwin - 1887 - 570 pages
...much as ever they did. My mind seems to have become a kind of machine for grinding general laws out of large collections of facts, but why this should have...depend, I cannot conceive. A man with a mind more highly organised or better constituted than mine, would not, I suppose, have thus suffered ; and if I had... | |
 | 1887 - 604 pages
...My mind seems to have become a kind of machine for grinding general laws out of a Inrge collection of facts, but why this should have caused the atrophy of that part of the brain alone, and on which the higher tastes depend, I cannot conceive. A man with a mind more highly organized or... | |
 | Charles Darwin - 1887 - 420 pages
...alone, on which the higher tastes depend, I cannot conceive. A man with a mind more highly organised or better constituted than mine, would not, I suppose, have thus suffered ; and if I had to live my life again, I would have made a rule to read some poetry and listen to some music at... | |
 | 1888 - 712 pages
..."My mind seems to have become a kind of a machine for grinding general laws out of a large collection of facts, but why this should have caused the atrophy...would not, I suppose, have thus suffered; and if I had to live my life again, I would have made a rule to read some poetry and listen to some music at... | |
 | 1888 - 758 pages
..."My mind seems to have become a kind of a machine for grinding general laws out of a large collection of facts, but why this should have caused the atrophy...would not, I suppose, have thus suffered ; and if I had to live my life again, I would have made a rule to read some poetry and listen to some music at... | |
 | William Parker Cutler - 1888 - 1034 pages
...much as ever they did. My mind seems to have become a kind of machine for grinding general laws out of large collections of facts, but why this should have...depend, I cannot conceive. A man with a mind more highly organised or better constituted than mine, would not, I suppose, have thus suffered ; and if I had... | |
 | 1888 - 950 pages
...had. " My mind," he writes, " seems to have become a sort of machine for grinding general laws out of large collections of facts ; but why this should have...which the higher tastes depend, I cannot conceive." As a recent writer has very pithily put it, " we think that a truth so entirely inoperative (as that... | |
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