 There is a great difference between the Idols of the human mind and the Ideas of the divine. That is to say, between certain empty dogmas, and the true signatures and marks set upon the works of creation as they are found in nature.  Miscellanies and Poems - Page xxvby Henry Fielding - 1872 - 200 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Francis Bacon - Logic - 1899 - 526 pages
...generalities, the other gradually rises to those principles which are really the most common in nature. 23. There is no small difference between the idols of the human mind and the ideas of the Divine mind—that is to say, between certain idle dogmas and the real stamp and impression of created objects,... | |
 | Francis Bacon - Logic - 1899 - 540 pages
...is no small difference between the idols of the human mind and the ideas of the Divine mind—that is to say, between certain idle dogmas and the real stamp and impression of created objects, as they are found in nature. . 24. Axioms determined upon in argument... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1900 - 542 pages
...generalities, the other gradually rises to those principles which are really the most common in nature. 23. There is no small difference between the idols of the human mind and the ideas of the Divine mind—that is to say, between certain idle dogmas and the real stamp and impression of created objects,... | |
 | Harald Høffding - Philosophy, Modern - 1900 - 558 pages
...abstraction than induction. And Bacon himself points to Plato as his model here. There is, he says, a difference between the " idols " of the human mind and the ideas of the divine mind. It is these latter that he seeks : they are the eternal " forms " of things. The " form " is the definition... | |
 | Education - 1895 - 812 pages
...not such as aman's own reason would have it to lie. " Beit known then how vast a difference there is between the idols of the human mind and the Ideas of the divine. The former are nothing more than arbitrary abstractions; the latter are the Creator's own stamp upon... | |
 | Francis Bacon - Logic - 1901 - 606 pages
...systems of philosophy by men's fancies. Let men learn (as we have said above), the difference that exists between the idols of the human mind and the ideas of the divine mind. The former are mere arbitrary abstractions; the latter the true marks of the Creator on his creatures,... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1901 - 302 pages
...of philosophy by. men's fancies, vjjet men learn (as we have said above) the difference that exists between the idols of the human mind and the ideas of the divine mind. The former are mere arbitrary abstractions; the latter the true marks of the Creator on his creatures,... | |
 | Henry Fielding - 1903 - 240 pages
...of Jonathan Wild the Great ; ' for there is given the author's notions of the kind of great- ^ ness which should attract the heartfelt homage of the virtuous...of created objects, as they are ' found in nature.' pride in closing this humble preface of mine with a passage that exhibits, in a charming way, the instinctive... | |
 | Lorin Gurney Sampson Farr - Conduct of life - 1904 - 218 pages
...the course of nature ; beyond this he neither knows anything nor can do anything. There is a great difference between the idols of the human mind and the ideas of the divine. That is to say, between certain empty dogmas and the true signatures and marks set upon the works of... | |
 | 1905 - 958 pages
...be utterly scattered to the winds. Be it known then how vast a difference there is (as I said above) between the Idols of the human mind and the Ideas of the divine. The former are nothing more than arbitrary abstractions ; the latter are the creator's own stamp upon... | |
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