 | Edward Archibald Allen, William Schuyler - 1900 - 478 pages
...represent them. Those who have handled sciences have been either men of experiment or men of dogmas. The men of experiment are like the ant; they only...business of philosophy; for it neither relies solely or chiefly on the powers of the mind, nor does it take the matter which it gathers from natural history... | |
 | David Josiah Brewer - 1902 - 474 pages
...represent them. Those who have handled sciences have been either men of experiment or men of dogmas. The men of experiment are like the ant ; they only...business of philosophy; for it neither relies solely or chiefly on the powers of the mind, nor does it take the matter which it gathers from natural history... | |
 | 1905 - 958 pages
...represent them. xcv. Those who have handled sciences have been either men of experiment or men of dogmas. The men of experiment are like the ant ; they only...spiders, who make cobwebs out of their own substance 85 . But the bee takes a middle course ; it gathers its material from the flowers of the garden and... | |
 | Augustus Hopkins Strong - 1907 - 1218 pages
...like the ant : they only collect material and put it to immediate use. Tho abstract reasonere arc like spiders, who make cobwebs out of their own substance....gathers its material from the flowers of the garden and the Held, while it transforms and digests what it gathers by a power of its own. Not unlike this is... | |
 | Augustus Hopkins Strong - 1907 - 404 pages
...like the ant : they only collect material aud put it to immediate use. The abstract reasoners are like spiders, who make cobwebs out of their own substance....a middle course: it gathers its material from the tlowcrs of the garden and the Held, while it transforms and digests what it gathers by a power of its... | |
 | 1908 - 768 pages
...represent them. xcv Those who have handled sciences have been either men of experiment or men of dogmas. The men of experiment are like the ant; they only...business of philosophy; for it neither relies solely or chiefly on the powers of the mind, nor does it take the matter which it gathers from natural history... | |
 | Francis Rolt-Wheeler - 1909 - 334 pages
...and reason : "Those who have handled sciences have been either men of experiment or men of dogmas. The men of experiment are like the ant ; they only...business of philosophy, for it neither relies solely or chiefly on the powers of the mind, nor does it take the matter which it gathers from natural history... | |
 | Felix Emmanuel Schelling - 1910 - 512 pages
...from the natural deduction which all men practise" that Bacon proposed; in his own happy illustration: The men of experiment are like the ant; they only...business of philosophy; for it neither relies solely or chiefly on the powers of the mind, nor does it take the matter which it gathers from natural history... | |
 | Frank Pierrepont Graves - 1910 - 360 pages
...declares : — " Those who have handled sciences have been either men of experiment or men of dogmas. The men of experiment are like the ant ; they only...reasoners resemble spiders ; who make cobwebs out of their substance. But the bee takes a middle course ; it gathers its material from the flowers of the garden... | |
 | Frank Pierrepont Graves - 1910 - 358 pages
...declares : — . " Those who have handled sciences have been either men of experiment or men of dogmas. The men of experiment are like the ant ; they only...reasoners resemble spiders ; who make cobwebs out of their substance. But the bee takes a middle course ; it gathers its material from the flowers of the garden... | |
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Those who have handled sciences have been either men of experiment or men of dogmas. The men of experiment are like the ant; they only collect and use: the reasoners resemble spiders, who make cobwebs out of their own substance. But the bee takes a middle... 
