 ... 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 113by Henry Richard Fox Bourne - 1876Full view - About this book
 | Edgar Lucien Larkin - California - 1911 - 278 pages
...girl, the tones she rendered. "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,...destroying one atom of what is already in being." Man can and has made hundreds of new chemical compounds, ie, those not found in nature ; and has torn... | |
 | Benjamin Rand - Philosophy - 1912 - 766 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. . . . CHAPTER III. OF SIMPLE IDEAS OF SENSE i. Division of simple ideas. — The better to conceive... | |
 | Benjamin Rand - Philosophy, Modern - 1924 - 924 pages
...there : the dominion of man in this little world of his own understanding, being much-what the 230 same as it is in the great world of visible things,...or destroying one atom of what is already in being. . . . CHAPTER III. OF SIMPLE IDEAS OF SENSE i. Division of simple ideas. — The better to conceive... | |
 | John Locke - Knowledge, Theory of - 1928 - 436 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... | |
 | Lewis White Beck - History - 1966 - 332 pages
...those that are there. The dominion of man, in this little world of his own understanding being muchwhat 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... | |
 | James Tully - Business & Economics - 1982 - 216 pages
...man to constitute modes out of the materials provided by God is his dominion. 'The Dominion of Man. . .however managed by Art and Skill, reaches no farther,...towards the making the least Particle of new Matter' (2.2.2). The crucial feature of this Baconian picture of man's creative and transformative powers is... | |
 | Charles Taylor - Philosophy - 1992 - 628 pages
...usual mode, where one speaks of 'constructing' a theory or a view. Ideas are 'materials', and man's "power, however managed by art and skill, reaches...and divide the materials that are made to his hand" (1.1.1). And after speaking in 1.11.1 of the formation of complex ideas out of simple, Locke says:... | |
 | Diogenes Allen, Eric O. Springsted - Philosophy - 1992 - 324 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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