 But these philosophers, whose hands seem only made to dabble in dirt, and their eyes to pore over the microscope or crucible, have indeed performed miracles. They penetrate into the recesses of nature and show how she works in her hiding-places.  Frankenstein: or, The modern Prometheus - Page 62by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley - 1823Full view - About this book
 | Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley - 1869 - 200 pages
...that the elixir of life is a chimera. But these philosophers, whose hands seem only made to dabble in dirt, and their eyes to pore over the microscope or...recesses of nature, and show how she works in her hiding-places. They ascend into the heavens; they have discovered how the blood circulates, and the... | |
 | Langdon Winner - Technology & Engineering - 1978 - 400 pages
...Bacon and Newton. He hears a professor tell how the modern masters are superior to the ancients since they "penetrate into the recesses of nature and show how she works in her hiding places,"^ a distinctly Baconian notion of what is involved. Following the principles of mathematics and natural... | |
 | George Levine, U. C. Knoepflmacher - Language Arts & Disciplines - 1982 - 368 pages
...magical terms in which the ancient models expressed their aims: the modern philosophers, he tells Victor, have indeed performed miracles. They penetrate into...the recesses of nature and show how she works in her hiding-places. . . . They have acquired new and almost unlimited powers; they can command the thunders... | |
 | George Lewis Levine, Alan Rauch - English literature - 1987 - 372 pages
...that the elixir of life is a chimera. But these philosophers, whose hands seem only made to dabble in dirt, and their eyes to pore over the microscope or...miracles. They penetrate into the recesses of nature, and shew how she works in her hiding places. They ascend into the heavens; they have discovered how the... | |
 | David Marshall - Literary Criticism - 1988 - 308 pages
...fascination with "secrets," his "fervent longing to penetrate the secrets of nature," his desire to "penetrate into the recesses of nature and show how she works in her hiding-places," and, of course, the obsession with "the deepest mysteries of creation" which leads... | |
 | Tamar Heller - Literary Criticism - 1992 - 222 pages
...echoes the rhetoric of his teacher M. Waldman, who claims in similar sexual imagery that scientists "penetrate into the recesses of nature, and show how she works in her hiding places" (47). 40 Marc Rubenstein, '"My Accursed Origin': The Search for the Mother in Frankenstein," Studies... | |
 | Peter Hughes, Robert Rehder - Authors and printing - 1996 - 258 pages
...Ingolstadt, takes over the metaphor and thrusts it to a monstrous spectacle: "They [the scientists] penetrate into the recesses of nature and show how she works in her hiding-places" (92). When Victor hears these words, he thinks: "I will pioneer a new way, explore unknown... | |
 | Kristin Sharon Shrader-Frechette, Laura Westra - Social Science - 1997 - 494 pages
...Bacon and Newton. He hears a professor tell how the modern masters are superior to the ancients since they "penetrate into the recesses of nature and show how she works in her hiding places,"2 a distinctly Baconian notion of what is involved. Following the principles of mathematics... | |
 | Donald Preziosi - Art - 1998 - 610 pages
...the side of the phallic principle, young Frankenstein is encouraged by his university professor 'to penetrate into the recesses of nature and show how she works in her hiding places',19 advice which repeats the sexually inflected discourse of science founded by Bacon and Descartes.20... | |
 | Tobias Churton - Christian heresies - 1997 - 216 pages
...that the elixir of life is a chimera. But these philosophers, whose hands seem only made to dabble in dirt, and their eyes to pore over the microscope or crucible, have indeed performed miracles.' At this point, paradoxically, Waldman proceeds to paraphrase from Pico della Mirandola's Oratio: They... | |
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