| Theodore Dwight Woolsey - 1874 - 58 pages
...Tyndall, in his " Fragments of Science," — treating upon the scientific use of the imagination, says : " We are gifted with the power of imagination, and by this power we can lighten the darkness which surrounds the world of the senses. * * Bounded and conditioned by co-operative... | |
| Charles Maurice Davies - 1875 - 396 pages
...even things undreamed of in man's philosophy. " We are then," I am using the author's own words, " gifted with the power of Imagination . . . and by this power we can lighten the darkness which surrounds the world of her senses. There is in the human intellect a power... | |
| Charles William Macfarlane - 1885 - 110 pages
...terms, and so we find him asking on page 16: " How, then, are those hidden things to be revealed ? We are gifted with the power of Imagination, and by this power we can lighten the darkness which surrounds the world of sense. Bounded and conditioned by Co-operant Reason,... | |
| 1888 - 756 pages
...Tyndall, in his "Fragments of Science," treating upon the scientific use of the imagination says: " We are gifted with the power of imagination, and by this power we can lighten the darkness which surrounds the world of the senses. . . Bounded wid condi. tloned by co-operative... | |
| Reuben Post Halleck - 1895 - 604 pages
...magnify, diminish, qualify, and combine experiences, so as to render them fit for purposes entirely new. We are gifted with the power of imagination, and by this power we can lighten the darkness which surrounds the world of the senses. There are tories, even in science, who... | |
| Reuben Post Halleck - 1900 - 508 pages
...purposes entirely new. We are gifted with the power of imagination, and by this power we can lighten the darkness which surrounds the world of the senses. . . . Bounded and conditioned by cob'perant reason, imagination becomes the mightiest instrument of the physical discoverer. Newton's... | |
| Edward Fry Bartholomew - 1902 - 296 pages
...magnify, diminish, qualify, and combine experiences, so as to render them fit for purposes entirely new. We are gifted with the power of imagination, and by this power we can lighten the darkness which surrounds the world of the senses. There are tories, even in science, who... | |
| George Iles - 1906 - 586 pages
...magnify, diminish, qualify, and combine experiences, so as to render them fit for purposes entirely new. We are gifted with the power of Imagination, and by this power we can lighten the darkness which surrounds the world of the senses. There are tories even in science who... | |
| Thomas Banks Strong - 1906 - 270 pages
...Science, vol. ii. transcend experience, but we can, at all events, carry it a long way from its origin.' 'We are gifted with the power of imagination, and by this power we can lighten the darkness which surrounds the world of the senses. Bounded and conditioned by co-operant... | |
| George Iles - 1906 - 604 pages
...magnify, diminish, qualify, and combine experiences, so as to render them fit for purposes entirely new. We are gifted with the power of Imagination, and by this power we can lighten the darkness which surrounds the world of the senses. There are tories even in science who... | |
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