 | United States. Bureau of Education - Education - 1895 - 1082 pages
...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... | |
 | Arthur Cayley Headlam - English periodicals - 1888 - 532 pages
...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... | |
 | Education - 1919 - 714 pages
...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 that part of my brain alone on which the higher tastes depend I cannot conceive. If I had to live my life again... | |
 | 1887 - 604 pages
...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 alone, and on which the higher tastes depend, I cannot conceive. A man with a mind more highly organized or... | |
 | Literature - 1888 - 510 pages
...nauseated me. I have also almost lost my taste for pictures or music. . . . My mind seems to nave become a kind of machine for grinding general laws out of...which the higher tastes depend I cannot conceive." Of one who thus writes of himself in all sincerity it would be most irrational to expect illumination... | |
 | England - 1888 - 962 pages
...on all sorts of subjects, interest me as much as ever they did. My mind seems to have become a sort of machine for grinding general laws out of large...which the higher tastes depend, I cannot conceive." It is, however, strictly logical that this should have been — almost too much so, allowing for the... | |
 | Science - 1888 - 898 pages
...nauseated me. I have almost lost my taste for pictures or music. . . . My mind seems to have become a kind of machine for grinding general laws out of...the brain alone on which the higher tastes depend, I can not conceive. ... If I had to live my life again, I •would have made a rule to read some poetry... | |
 | 1888 - 950 pages
...ceased to have for him the charm it once had. " My mind," he writes, " seems to have become a sort of machine for grinding general laws out of large...which the higher tastes depend, I cannot conceive." As a recent writer has very pithily put it, " we think that a truth so entirely inoperative (as that... | |
 | Education - 1888 - 758 pages
..."My mind seems to have become a kind of a machine for grinding general laws out of a large collection of facts, but why this should have caused the atrophy...depend, I cannot conceive. A man with a mind more highly organized or better constituted than mine, would not, I suppose, have thus suffered ; and if I had... | |
 | Education - 1888 - 712 pages
..."My mind seems to have become a kind of a machine for grinding general laws out of a large collection of facts, but why this should have caused the atrophy...depend, I cannot conceive. A man with a mind more highly organized or better constituted than mine, would not, I suppose, have thus suffered; and if I had to... | |
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My mind seems to have become a kind of machine for grinding general laws out of large collections of facts; but why this should have caused the atrophy of that part of the brain alone, on which the higher tastes depend, I cannot conceive. 
