 My mind seems to have become a kind of machine for grinding general laws out of large collections of facts ; but why this should have caused the atrophy of that part of the brain alone on which the higher tastes depend, I cannot conceive.  The Presbyterian Quarterly - Page 2161893Full view - About this book
 | Medical and Chirurgical Faculty of the State of Maryland - Medicine - 1887 - 1134 pages
...it so intolerably dull that it nauseated me. I have also almost lost my taste for pictures or music. My mind seems to have become a kind of machine for grinding out general laws out of large collections of facts." These indications of the methods by which Nature... | |
 | United States. Bureau of Education - Education - 1895 - 1082 pages
...poetry; Shakespeare nauseated him, and he had entirely lost his taste for music. " My mind," he says, " seems to have become a kind of machine for grinding general laws out of large collections of facts. If I had to live my life over again I would have made a rule to read some poetry and listen to some... | |
 | Arthur Cayley Headlam - English periodicals - 1888 - 532 pages
...engrossed him and encouraged him by their fruitful results. And so he himself describes his mind as having become a kind of machine for grinding general laws out of large collections of facts. He lost his pleasure in poetry and music and painting ; he came, in his own words, not to be able to... | |
 | Education - 1919 - 714 pages
...so inexpressibly dull that it nauseated me. I have also almost lost my taste for pictures and music. My mind seems to have become a kind of machine for grinding out general laws out of a large collection of facts ; but why this should have caused the atrophy of... | |
 | John Michels - Science - 1925 - 960 pages
...periods of complete rest and sanitarium treatment, can one wonder that, in his own words, his mind should become a "kind of machine for grinding general laws out of large collections of facts," and that there should be a corresponding "atrophy of that part of the brain . . . on which the higher... | |
 | Charles Darwin - Naturalists - 1887 - 588 pages
...which they may contain), and essays on all sorts of subjects interest me as much as ever they did. My mind seems to have become a kind of machine for...which the higher tastes depend, I cannot conceive. A man with a mind more highly organised or better constituted than mine, would not, I suppose, have... | |
 | Charles Darwin - Autobiography - 1887 - 420 pages
...which they may contain), and essays on all sorts of subjects interest me as much as ever they did. My mind seems to have become a kind of machine for...which the higher tastes depend, I cannot conceive. A man with a mind more highly organised or better constituted than mine, would not, I suppose, have... | |
 | Charles Darwin - 1887 - 570 pages
...which they may contain), and essays on all sorts of subjects interest me as much as ever they did. My mind seems to have become a kind of machine for...which the higher tastes depend, I cannot conceive. A man with a mind more highly organised or better constituted than mine, would not, I suppose, have... | |
 | 1887 - 604 pages
...which they may contain), and essays on all sorts of subjects, interest mo as much as they ever did. My mind seems to have become a kind of machine for grinding general laws out of a Inrge collection of facts, but why this should have caused the atrophy of that part of the brain... | |
 | William Parker Cutler - 1888 - 1034 pages
...which they may contain), and essays on all sorts of subjects interest me as much as ever they did. My mind seems to have become a kind of machine for...which the higher tastes depend, I cannot conceive. A man with a mind more highly organised or better constituted than mine, would not, I suppose, have... | |
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