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" ... the dominion of man in this little world of his own understanding, being much-what the same as it is in the great world, of visible things, wherein his power, however managed by art and skill, reaches no farther than to compound and divide the materials... "
The Life of John Locke - Page 113
by Henry Richard Fox Bourne - 1876
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Locke

Thomas Fowler - 1883 - 224 pages
...that are there : the dominion of man, in this little world of his own understanding, being much what the same as it is in the great world of visible things,...nothing towards the making the least particle of new f matter or destroying one atom of what is already in being. The same inability will every one find...
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The Human Mind: A Treatise in Mental Philosophy

Edward John Hamilton - Psychology - 1883 - 740 pages
...as follows: "The dominion of man in this little world of his own understanding is much the same as in the great world of visible things; wherein his...power, however managed by art and skill, reaches no further than to compound and divide the materials that are made to his hand, but can do nothing towards...
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Mental Science: A Text-book for Schools and Colleges

Edward John Hamilton - Psychology - 1886 - 708 pages
...as follows : " The dominion of man in this little world of his own understanding is much the same as in the great world of visible things ; wherein his...power, however managed by art and skill, reaches no further than to compound and divide the materials that are made to his hand, but can do nothing towards...
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Leibniz's New Essays Concerning the Human Understanding: A Critical Exposition

John Dewey - Knowledge, Theory of - 1888 - 302 pages
...compounding, of repeatingj_comparing, and uniting «ensation. Man's understanding "reaches no further than to compound and divide the materials that are made to his hand." It hardly need be said that Locke has gre_at_difficulty in keeping up jhis thjjroujjMy atomic thggry...
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Elements of psychology,.

Noah Knowles Davis - 1892 - 376 pages
...simple idea in the mind. The dominion of man, in this little world of his own understanding, is much the same as it is in the great world of visible things,...power, however managed by art and skill, reaches no further than to compound or divide the materials that are made to his hand, but can do nothing towards...
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A History of Modern Philosophy: (From the Renaissance to the Present)

Benjamin Chapman Burt - Philosophy, Modern - 1892 - 378 pages
...farther than to compound and divide the materials that are made to his hand, but can do nothing towards making the least particle of new matter, or destroying one atom of what is already in being." In an active relation to its ideas, the mind may by repeating, comparing, uniting simple ideas produce...
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English Men of Letters, Volume 11

John Morley - Authors, English - 1894 - 618 pages
...that are there : the dominion of man, in this little world of his own understanding, being much-what the same as it is in the great world of visible things,...or destroying one atom of what is already in being. The same inability will every one find in himself who shall go about to fashion in his Understanding...
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Determinism from Hobbes to Hume

John Phelps Fruit - Free will and determinism - 1895 - 62 pages
...idea. In Locke's words : The dominion of man, in this little world of his own understanding, being much the same as it is in the great world of visible things,...and divide the materials that are made to his hand. -) The simple ideas come, nolens volens, into the mind, but the understanding has unlimited power to...
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History of Philosophy

Alfred Weber - Philosophy - 1896 - 708 pages
...of sensation and reflection. The dominion of man, in this little world of his own understanding, is the same as it is in the great world of visible things,...matter, or destroying one atom of what is already in being.1 The simple ideas come into our minds by one sense only, or by more senses than one, or from...
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History of Philosophy

Alfred Weber - Philosophy - 1896 - 660 pages
...of sensation and reflection. The dominion of man, in this little world of his own understanding, is the same as it is in the great world of visible things,...the materials that are made to his hand ; but can do twilling towards the making the least particle of new matter, or destroying one atom of what is already...
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