 | Massachusetts - 1872 - 1252 Seiten
...fruits. For it is a philosophy which never rests, which has never attained it, which is never perfect. Its law is progress. A point which yesterday was invisible is its goal to-day, and will be its starting-point tomorrow." I have said that Lord Bacon endeavored to found his theory of philosophy... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1873 - 728 Seiten
...fruits. For it is a philosophy which never rests, which has never attained, which is never perfect. Its law is progress. A point which yesterday was invisible is its goal to-day, and will be its starting-post to-morrow." Great and various as the powers of Bacon were, he owes his wide and durable... | |
 | James Booth - 1873 - 268 Seiten
...fruits. For it is a philosophy which never rests — which has never attained, which is never perfect. Its law is progress. A point which yesterday was invisible is its goal to-day and will be its starting-post to-morrow.' (P. 399.) There is something to be said, therefore, for the material results... | |
 | William Richard Hughes - 1875 - 100 Seiten
...ago : — " It is philosophy which never rests, which has never " attained, which is never perfect. Its law is progress. A point "which yesterday was...invisible, is its goal to-day, and will be its " starting point to-morrow." This aphorism eminently applies to the Marine Aquarium, as to every other branch... | |
 | Isaac T. Coates - 1876 - 78 Seiten
...philosophy [as ours is a government] which never rests, which has never attained, which is never perfect. Its law is progress. A point which yesterday was invisible is its goal to-day, and will be its starting-post to-morrow." The inventive genius of America will next, through the instantaneous production... | |
 | Henry Wace - 1876 - 352 Seiten
...essentially erroneous. For Science has been truly described as " a philosophy which never rests ; whose law is progress : a point which yesterday was invisible is its goal to-day, and will be its starting-post to-morrow." Step by step it extends its domain over every region of Nature, and step... | |
 | 1876 - 794 Seiten
...fruits. For it is a philosophy which never rests, which has never attained, which is never perfect. Its law is progress. A point which yesterday was invisible is its gaol to-day, and will be its starting post to-morrow. " Into this realm of Exact Science the Germans... | |
 | Church congress - 1877 - 642 Seiten
...principle the more does the famous description of the Baconian method apply to it. It is a system " which never rests ; its law is progress. A point which...to-day, and will be its starting post to-morrow." Evolution, by its very nature, is evolution towards an unknown goal; and to attempt to fix that goal... | |
 | 1877 - 670 Seiten
...principle the more does the famous description of the Baconian method apply to it. It is a system " which never rests ; its law is progress. A point which...to-day, and will be its starting post to-morrow." Evolution, by its very nature, is evolution towards an unknown goal ; and to attempt to fix that goal... | |
 | Henry Wace - 1877 - 340 Seiten
...essentially erroneous. For Science has been truly described as " a philosophy which never rests ; whose law is progress : a point which yesterday was invisible is its goal to-day, and will be its starting-post to-morrow." Step by step it extends its domain over every region of Nature, and step... | |
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For it is a philosophy which never rests, which has never attained, which is never perfect. Its law is progress. A point which yesterday was invisible is its goal to-day, and will be its starting-post to-morrow. 
