 ... prompted by certain analogies, we ascribe electrical phenomena to the action of a peculiar fluid, sometimes flowing, sometimes at rest. Such conceptions have their advantages and their disadvantages; they afford peaceful lodging to the intellect for...  Faraday as a Discoverer - Page 54by John Tyndall - 1890 - 171 pagesFull view - About this book
 | 1868 - 472 pages
...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,...its prison instead of its home.* No man ever felt the tyranny of symbols more deeply than Faraday, and no man was ever more assiduous than he to liberate... | |
 | 1868 - 346 pages
...agreeing with the statement there given." LAWS OF ELECTBO-CitEMicAi DECOMPOSITION. No man ever felt the tyranny of symbols more deeply than Faraday, and no...them and the terms which suggested them. Calling Dr. Whewcll to his aid in 1333, he endeavoured to displace by others all terms tainted by n foregone conclusion.... | |
 | Royal Institution of Great Britain - 1869 - 646 pages
...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 down the walls-of what has becomo its prison instead of its home.* No man ever felt this tyranny of symbols... | |
 | Royal Institution of Great Britain - 1869 - 636 pages
...peaceful lodging to the intellect for a time, but they also circumscribe it, and by and by, when tho mind has grown too large for its lodging, it often finds difficulty in breaking down tho walls of what has become its prison instead of its home.* No man ever felt this tyranny of symbols... | |
 | John Tyndall - 1870 - 452 pages
...circumscribe it ; and by and by, when the mind has grown too large for its mansion, it often finds a difficulty in breaking down the walls of what has become its prison instead of its home. Thus at the present day, the man who would cross the bounds which at present limit our knowledge of... | |
 | John Tyndall - 1873 - 202 pages
...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,...ever more assiduous than he to liberate himself from them,.and the terms which suggested them. Calling Dr. Whewell to his aid in 1833, he endeavoured to... | |
 | John Tyndall - 1877 - 208 pages
...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,...of what has become its prison instead of its home.* ISFo man ever felt this tyranny of symbols more deeply than Faraday, and no man was ever more assiduous... | |
 | 1885 - 276 pages
...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 down the wall of what has become its prison i nstead of its home. " In this institution Dr. Rogers joined his... | |
 | Leslie Stephen - 1889 - 474 pages
...aflord 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,...of what has become its prison instead of its home.' These words are quoted because they so chime in with Faraday's views, that when he heard them he could... | |
 | Leslie Stephen, Sir Sidney Lee - 1889 - 468 pages
...afford peaceful lodging to the 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 down the walls of what has become its prison instead of its home.' These... | |
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