 | Medicine - 1844 - 624 pages
...apparent transformations, which different substances undergo in their sensible qualities.* Bacon says, that " all bodies whatsoever, though they have no sense, yet they have perception." As the ultimate elements of all living bodies are of the same kind as those most energetic in inanimate... | |
 | William Addison - Lymphatics - 1849 - 384 pages
...which different substances undergo in their sensible qualities." * " It is certain," says Lord Bacon, " that all bodies whatsoever, though they have no sense,...of election to embrace that which is agreeable, and exclude or expel that which is ingrate ; and whether the body be alterant or altered, evermore a perception... | |
 | Efraim Liljeqvist - Ethics - 1898 - 394 pages
...betydelse fordrar att vi något se till, bland annat heter: It is certain that all bodies wathsoever, though they have no sense, yet they have perception:...whether the body be alterant or altered, evermore a pereeption precedeth operation; for else all bodies would be alike one to another. And sometimes this... | |
 | William Theobald - Civilization, Classical, in literature - 1909 - 418 pages
...instinctive sense and sense the result of ratiocination, is fully set forth in his "Sylva-Sylvarum." " It is certain that all bodies whatsoever, though they have no sense, yet they have perception." ("Century" IX., preface). "The insects have voluntary motion and therefore imagination." ("Syl.-Syl."... | |
 | Alfred North Whitehead - Science - 1925 - 330 pages
...recur to the passage from Francis Bacon's Natural History, already quoted in the previous lecture : 'It is certain that all bodies whatsoever, though they have no sense, yet they have perception : . . . and whether the body be alterant or altered, evermore a perception precedeth operation; for... | |
 | Alfred North Whitehead - Science - 1925 - 308 pages
...recur to the passage from Francis Bacon's Natural History f already quoted in the previous lecture: "It is certain that all bodies whatsoever, though they have no sense, yet they have perception: . . . and whether the body be alterant or altered, evermore a perception precedeth operation; for else... | |
 | Murray Code - Mathematics - 1985 - 280 pages
...the notion that physical entities must be able to "feel" one another: "It is certain," says Bacon, "that all bodies whatsoever, though they have no sense,...perception; for when one body is applied to another . . . Whether the body be alterant or altered, evermore a perception preceedeth operation; for else... | |
 | Norman O. Brown - Philosophy - 1990 - 292 pages
...crosses the boundary; action at a distance. Whitehead finds his paradigm in a text from Francis Bacon: "It is certain that all bodies whatsoever, though they have no sense, yet they have perception. . . . And this perception is sometimes at a distance, as well as upon the touch; as when the loadstone... | |
 | Louis K. Dupré - Philosophy - 1993 - 318 pages
...(between 1620 and 1626) he advances a theory of elective affinities not unlike the one of alchemy. "It is certain that all bodies whatsoever, though...is agreeable, and to exclude or expel that which is ingrate."16 Bacon's call for unlimited control over nature rested on the assumption that nature possessed... | |
 | Felix Krämer - Fichte - 1994 - 302 pages
...andere Lösung, deren Möglichkeit er anhand des folgenden Zitats aus Bacons Natural History erläutert: ,It is certain that all bodies whatsoever, though they have no sense, yet they have perception: ... and whether the body be alterant or altered, evermore a perception precedeth operation; for eise... | |
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IT is certain, that all bodies whatsoever, though they have no sense, yet they have perception : for when one body is applied to another, there is a kind of election to embrace that which is agreeable, and to exclude or expel that which is ingrate... 
