 | American Philosophical Society - Anthropology - 1891 - 666 pages
...so intolerably dull that it nauseated me. I have almost lost my taste for pictures and music. * * * My mind seems to have become a kind of machine for grinding general laws out of a large collection of facts." Dr. Leidy, however, sought chiefly to ascertain facts ; he did not attempt... | |
 | Charles Gore - Christianity - 1891 - 336 pages
...faculties into other channels. It is very well known how Darwin describes his own mind as having ' become a kind of machine for grinding general laws out of large collections of facts,' with the result of producing ' atrophy of that part of the brain on which the higher tastes depend... | |
 | Sir Herbert Beerbohm Tree - Acting - 1893 - 78 pages
...novels, which are works of the imagination, though not of a very high order, have been for years a 43 wonderful relief and pleasure to me, and I often bless...of machine for grinding general laws out of large 44 collections of facts, but why this should have caused the atrophy of that part of the brain alone,... | |
 | Students' Christian Association (University of Michigan) - Christianity - 1893 - 272 pages
...cannot endure to read aline 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... | |
 | Arthur Milnes Marshall - Evolution - 1894 - 268 pages
...and Earthworms," considered as a sample of his mode of work. Darwin's estimate of his own powers: " My mind seems to have become a kind of machine for...grinding general laws out of large collections of facts." Avoidance of controversy. Darwin's influence on Scientific Thought. The great importance of little... | |
 | 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... | |
 | Nathaniel Hillyer Egleston - Arbor Day - 1896 - 100 pages
...that fine scenery 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... | |
 | Agriculture - 1896 - 360 pages
...that line scenery failed to cause him the exquisit e 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 - 396 pages
...when, a 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... | |
 | Burke Aaron Hinsdale - Education - 1896 - 394 pages
...when, a 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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