 | Henry Lewis - Philosophers - 1913 - 450 pages
...sciene* had inflicted upon his emotional nature. He confesses with regret that it had left him with " an atrophy of that part of the brain alone on which the higher tastes depend." Life, Vol. I., p. 102. was defective by the way he had trained it, and also by the spirit in which... | |
 | 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... | |
 | Lisle March Phillipps - Aesthetics - 1915 - 322 pages
...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 depend." At the same time he feels that the preservation of the lost faculty was originally within his power,... | |
 | 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... | |
 | Richard Wilde Micou - Apologetics - 1916 - 528 pages
...holds true of multitudes who do not feel, as he did, the greatness of their loss. " My mind, in fact, 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... | |
 | Robert Henry Charles - Sermons, English - 1917 - 268 pages
...it so intolerably dull that it nauseated me. I have also lost my taste for pictures and music. . . . 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... | |
 | Harry Emerson Fosdick - Devotional exercises - 1917 - 336 pages
...on biology he utterly lost his power to appreciate music or poetry is a case in point. Said Darwin, "My mind seems to have become a kind of machine for grinding general laws out of a large collection of facts." It is needless to say that such a mind is not likely to be more vividly... | |
 | Elizabeth A. Hayes - 1917 - 120 pages
...of his body. But now the grandest scenes would not cause any such convictions and feelings to rise. My mind seems to have become a kind of machine for grinding general laws out of a large collection of facts." Pure reason slowly but surely makes, as it were, fossils of what once... | |
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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 states depend, I cannot conceive... 
