 | Sir Daniel Keyte Sandford - 1836 - 496 psl.
...the tribe, are the causes of error founded on human nature in general Thus all men have a propensity to find in nature, a greater degree of order, simplicity,...regularity, than is actually indicated by observation. This propensity, usually distinguished by the tide of tpirit of system, is one of the greatest enemies... | |
 | 1841 - 956 psl.
...the tribe, are the causes of error founded on human nature in general. Thus all men have a propensity to find in nature, a greater degree of order, simplicity,...regularity, than is actually indicated by observation. This propensity, usually distinguished by the title of tpirit •>/ system, is one of the greatest... | |
 | Dionysius Lardner - 1846 - 644 psl.
...tic tribe are the causes of error, founded on human nature in general. Thus all men have a propensity to find in nature a greater degree of order, simplicity,...regularity, than is actually indicated by observation. This propensity, usually distinguished by the title of spirit of system, is one of the greatest enemies... | |
 | Dionysius Lardner - 1846 - 664 psl.
...tribe are the causes of error, founded on human na- «| ture in general. Thus all men have a propensity to find in nature a | greater degree of order, simplicity, and regularity, than is actually indi- ¡ caled by observation. This propensity, usually distinguished by the title of spirit of. system,... | |
 | George Henry Lewes - 1851 - 248 psl.
...iii. pp. 194-6. which reflects the images of things exactly as they are ; it is like a mirror of an uneven surface, which combines its own figure with...reckon the propensity which there is in all men to find a. greater degree of order, simplicity, and regularity, than is actually indicated by observation.... | |
 | Samuel Kydd - 1857 - 368 psl.
...production of wealth which the few enjoyed. So true it is that " the mind," as Bacon has observed, " is not like a plain mirror, which reflects the image...figure with the figures of the objects it represents." Dr Kay conceived that each part of the system was, as it existed in 1832, " necessary to the preservation... | |
 | Bridget Margaret Sortain - 1861 - 476 psl.
...a plane mirror, which reflects the images of things exactly as they are; it is like a mirror of an uneven surface, which combines its own figure with the figures of the objects it represents.' And he strove to show the subjecting distortions ; or, to use another figure, Truth conies to us through... | |
 | John Rutherfurd Russell - 1861 - 546 psl.
...Astronomy, require cor- human sense is the measure of things." rection, aud in Aphorism x. 41, Bacon uneven surface, which combines its own figure with the figures of the objects it represents;"1 — that is, exact observation is in itself a difficulty, from what Bacon calls the unevenness... | |
 | Frederick Arnold - 1866 - 494 psl.
...THE TRIBE. mirror, which reflects the images of things exactly as they are; it is like a mirror of an uneven surface, which combines its own figure with the figures of the objects it represents." This he especially applies to the Idols of the Tribe, the human tendency to systematise every thing.... | |
 | George Henry Lewes - 1867 - 692 psl.
...a plane mirror, which reflects the images of things exactly as they are ; it is like a mirror of an uneven surface, which combines its own figure with...reckon the propensity which there is in all men to find a greater degree of order, simplicity, and regularity than is actually indicated by observation. Thus... | |
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is not like a plane mirror, which reflects the images of things exactly as they are ; it is like a mirror of an uneven surface, which combines its own figure with the figures of the objects it represents. 
