 | Sir Herbert Beerbohm Tree - Acting - 1893 - 78 pages
...they did. My mind seems to have become a kind of machine for grinding general laws out of large 44 collections of facts, but why this should have caused...highly organised or better constituted than mine would not,5 1 suppose, have thus suffered ; and, if I had to live my life again, I would have made a rule... | |
 | Frederic William Henry Myers - English drama - 1893 - 270 pages
...energetically on what I have been at work on, instead of giving me pleasure. My mind seems to have become a kind of machine for grinding general laws out of...which the higher tastes depend, I cannot conceive. . . . The loss of these tastes is a loss of happiness, and may' possibly be injurious to the intellect,... | |
 | Students' Christian Association (University of Michigan) - Christianity - 1893 - 272 pages
...of poetry 1 have also almost, lost my taste for pictures or music. . . .My mind seems to have become a kind of machine for grinding general laws out of large collections of facts;" and in another connection : "As for a future life, every man must judge for himself between conflicting... | |
 | Horace Smith - Drama, English - 1894 - 144 pages
...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 general laws out of...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... | |
 | W. T. B. Martin, T. E. S. T. - Instinct - 1894 - 536 pages
...London. t " Life and Letters of Charles Darwin," by F. Darwin (Murray, Darwin's " Origin of Species." 349 this should have caused the atrophy of that part of the brain on which the higher tastes depend, a point this of which we will treat later on. Thus he analyses his... | |
 | Education - 1897 - 880 pages
...machine for grinding general laws out of a large collec- ] tion of facts,'' and he could not conceive "why this should have caused the atrophy of that part...the brain alone on which the higher tastes depend." "If,"' he continues, "I had to live my life again, I would make it a rule to read some poetry and listen... | |
 | Samuel Silas Curry - Elocution - 1896 - 388 pages
...what I have been at work upon, instead of giving me pleasure. . . . My mind seems to have become a machine for grinding general laws out of large collections...which the higher tastes depend, I cannot conceive. . . . If I had to live my life again, I would have made a rule to read some poetry and listen to some... | |
 | Burke Aaron Hinsdale - Education - 1896 - 396 pages
...young man, he stood in the grandeur of a Brazilian forest. 1 He speaks of his mind as having become " a kind of machine for grinding general laws out of large collections of facts,'' and says he cannot conceive '' why this should have caused the atrophy of that part of the brain alone... | |
 | Nathaniel Hillyer Egleston - Arbor Day - 1896 - 90 pages
...failed to cause him the exquisite delight it formerly did, and that his mind seemed to have become a kind of machine for grinding general laws out of large collections of facts, resulting in the atrophy of that part of the brain on which the higher tastes depend. " The loss of... | |
 | Burke Aaron Hinsdale - Education - 1896 - 394 pages
...young man, he stood in the grandeur of a Brazilian forest.1 He speaks of his mind as having become " a kind of machine for grinding general laws out of large collections of facts, ' ' and says he cannot conceive ' ' 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; but why this should have caused the atrophy of that part of the brain alone, on which the higher tastes depend, I cannot conceive. 
