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Charles Darwin's Works: The life and letters of Charles Darwin... ed. by his ... - Page 81
by Charles Darwin - 1896
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Proceedings and Reports of the Medical and Chirurgical ..., Volumes 89-91

Medical and Chirurgical Faculty of the State of Maryland - Medicine - 1887 - 1134 pages
...it so intolerably dull that it nauseated me. I have also almost lost my taste for pictures or music. My mind seems to have become a kind of machine for grinding out general laws out of large collections of facts." These indications of the methods by which Nature...
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Report of the Commissioner of Education Made to the Secretary of ..., Volume 1

United States. Bureau of Education - Education - 1895 - 1082 pages
...poetry; Shakespeare nauseated him, and he had entirely lost his taste for music. " My mind," he says, " seems to have become a kind of machine for grinding general laws out of large collections of facts. If I had to live my life over again I would have made a rule to read some poetry and listen to some...
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The Church Quarterly Review, Volume 26

Arthur Cayley Headlam - English periodicals - 1888 - 532 pages
...engrossed him and encouraged him by their fruitful results. And so he himself describes his mind as having become a kind of machine for grinding general laws out of large collections of facts. He lost his pleasure in poetry and music and painting ; he came, in his own words, not to be able to...
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Education, Volume 39

Education - 1919 - 714 pages
...so inexpressibly dull that it nauseated me. I have also almost lost my taste for pictures and music. My mind seems to have become a kind of machine for grinding out general laws out of a large collection of facts ; but why this should have caused the atrophy of...
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Science, Volume 61

John Michels - Science - 1925 - 960 pages
...periods of complete rest and sanitarium treatment, can one wonder that, in his own words, his mind should become a "kind of machine for grinding general laws out of large collections of facts," and that there should be a corresponding "atrophy of that part of the brain . . . on which the higher...
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The Congregational Review, Volume 2, Part 1

1887 - 604 pages
...facts which they may contain), and essays on all sorts of subjects, interest mo as much as they ever did. My mind seems to have become a kind of machine for grinding general laws out of a Inrge collection of facts, but why this should have caused the atrophy of that part of the brain...
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The Popular Science Monthly, Volume 33

Science - 1888 - 938 pages
...so intolerably dull that it nauseated me. I have almost lost my taste for pictures or music. . . . My mind seems to have become a kind of machine for...general laws out of large collections of facts. But why thw should have caused the atrophy of that part of the brain alone on which the higher tastes depend,...
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The Musical World, Volume 68

Music - 1888 - 1074 pages
...ot a man whose learning and great powers of research made him famous, I mean Charles Darwin : — " My mind seems to have become a kind of machine for...grinding general laws out of large collections of facts. . . If I had to live my life again, I would have made a rule to read some poetry and listen to some...
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The Dublin Review, Volume 102

Nicholas Patrick Wiseman - 1888 - 742 pages
...intolerably dull." All his taste, too, for music and pictures equally disappears. In fact, he confesses : " My mind seems to have become a kind of machine for...grinding general laws out of large collections of facts," and he loses all enjoyment from his other tastes. As we began by saying, whether for good or for ill,...
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Mind, Volume 13

Electronic journals - 1888 - 658 pages
...curious dying-away of the "higher (esthetic tastes," as life went on and his mind more and more became " a kind of machine for grinding general laws out of large collections of facts ". The proclamation of philosophical (as distinguished from scientific) incompetence has a truly remarkable...
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