 | John Theodore Merz - Philosophy, Modern - 1912 - 692 pages
...III. of the higher aesthetic tastes is all the odder, as books on History, Biographies and Travels, and Essays on all sorts of subjects, interest me as...grinding general laws out of large collections of facts, &c. " (' Life and l.otteri) of Charles Darwin,' 1st ed., vol. ip 100). In the face of thin lelf-dopreolation,... | |
 | John Theodore Merz - Philosophy, Modern - 1912 - 658 pages
...III. of the higher esthetic tastes is all the odder, as books on History, Biographies and Travels, and Essays on all sorts of subjects, interest me as...grinding general laws out of large collections of facts, &c. " (' Life and Letters of Charles Darwin,' 1st ed., vol. ip 100). , In the face of this self-depreciation,... | |
 | James Edward Peabody, Arthur Ellsworth Hunt - Biology - 1912 - 656 pages
...neglecting. In the later years of his life, the great naturalist, Charles Darwin, wrote as follows : " My mind seems to have become a kind of machine for...grinding general laws out of large collections of facts. ... If I were to live my life again, I would have made a rule to read some poetry and listen to some... | |
 | Methodist Church - 1903 - 1038 pages
...gradual atrophy of those powers of his mind on which the higher tastes depend. "My mind," he writes, "seems to have become a kind of machine for grinding general laws out of large collections of facts." He confesses that this atrophy of the parts referred to may have been "injurious to the intellect,... | |
 | John Theodore Merz - Philosophy, Modern - 1912 - 670 pages
...and Travels, and Essays on all sorts of subjects, interest me as much as ever they did. My mind deems to have become a kind of machine for grinding general laws out of large collections of facts, &c. " ('Life and Letters of Charles Darwin,' 1st ed., vol. ip 100). In the face of this self-depreciation,... | |
 | Methodist Church - 1904 - 1036 pages
...knowledge" to dig out his heart. Darwin's confession shows that he, too, realized this danger. He says : "My mind seems to have become a kind of machine for grinding general laws out of a large collection of facts. Why this should have caused the atrophy of that part of the brain I cannot... | |
 | John Archibald Venn - 1913 - 978 pages
...them " if moderately good, and if they do not end unhappily." His mind, he said, " had become a sort of machine for grinding general laws out of large collections of facts." His estimate of himself was that, " with such moderate abilities as I possess, it is truly surprising... | |
 | Lisle March Phillipps - Aesthetics - 1915 - 328 pages
...the shipwreck of one whole side of his nature. He is conscious of his loss. " My mind," he says, " seems to have become a kind of machine for grinding general laws out of large collections of facts " ; and the result has been " the atrophy of that part of the brain alone, on which the higher tastes... | |
 | Fred Wellington Ruckstuhl - Art - 1916 - 618 pages
...me as much as ever they did. . . . My mind seems to have become a kind of machine for grinding out general laws out of large collections of facts ; but...the atrophy of that part of the brain alone on which 276 January 1917 THE ART WORLD the higher tastes depend, I cannot conceive. ... If I had to live my... | |
 | Josiah Bethea Game - Latin language - 1916 - 144 pages
...found it so intolerably dull that it nauseated me. I have lost my taste for pictures, and for music. My mind seems to have become a kind of machine for grinding general laws out of a large collection of facts, but why this should have caused the atrophy of that part of the brain... | |
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My mind seems to have become a kind of machine for grinding general laws out of large collections of facts... 
