 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 course; it gathers its material from the flowers of the garden and of the field,...  Bacon - Page 102by Thomas Fowler - 1881 - 202 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Alexander Campbell Fraser - 1899 - 400 pages
...spider ; they make intellectual cobwebs out of their present possessions. The bee rightly takes the middle course : it gathers its material from the flowers of the garden and the field, but it transforms them by a power of its own. The composition which unites the past and... | |
 | David Josiah Brewer - American essays - 1900 - 478 pages
...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...by a power of its own. Not unlike this is the true business of philosophy; for it neither relies solely or chiefly on the powers of the mind, nor does... | |
 | David Josiah Brewer - English literature - 1902 - 472 pages
...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...by a power of its own. Not unlike this is the true business of philosophy; for it neither relies solely or chiefly on the powers of the mind, nor does... | |
 | 1905 - 958 pages
...collect and use ; the reasoners resemble spiders, who make cobwebs out of their own substance 85 . But the bee takes a middle course ; it gathers its...by a power of its own,. Not unlike this is the true business of philosophy ; for" it neither relies solely or chiefly on the powers of the mind, nor does... | |
 | Augustus Hopkins Strong - Baptists - 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 - Theology - 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... | |
 | Philosophy, Modern - 1908 - 768 pages
...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...by a power of its own. Not unlike this is the true business of philosophy; for it neither relies solely or chiefly on the powers of the mind, nor does... | |
 | Francis Rolt-Wheeler - Science - 1909 - 348 pages
...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...by a power of its own. Not unlike this is the true business of philosophy, for it neither relies solely or chiefly on the powers of the mind, nor does... | |
 | Felix Emmanuel Schelling - English literature - 1910 - 528 pages
...his own happy illustration: The men of experiment are like the ant; they only collect and use: the reasoners resemble spiders, who make cobwebs out of...by a power of its own. Not unlike this is the true business of philosophy; for it neither relies solely or chiefly on the powers of the mind, nor does... | |
 | Frank Pierrepont Graves - Education - 1910 - 360 pages
...the ant ; they only collect and use : the 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 and the field, but transforms and digests it by a power of its own. Not unlike that is the true business... | |
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