 | sir James Mackintosh - 1834 - 394 pages
...that genius for system, which, though it cramps the growth of knowledge, perhaps finally atones for that mischief by the zeal and activity which it rouses...accident, when in pursuit of weapons for their warfare." No extract within the compass of these pages would give a just idea of the expositions which he gives,... | |
 | James Machintosh - 1884 - 310 pages
...that genius for system, which, though it cramps the growth of knowledge, perhaps finally atones for that mischief by the zeal and activity which it rouses...accident, when in pursuit of weapons for their warfare." No extract within the compass of these pages would give a just idea of the expositions which he gives,... | |
 | Sir James Mackintosh - Great Britain - 1834 - 402 pages
...that genius for system, which, though it cramps the growth of knowledge, perhaps finally atones for that mischief by the zeal and activity which it rouses...accident, when in pursuit of weapons for their warfare." No extract within the compass of these pages would give a just idea of the expositions which he gives,... | |
 | James Mill - 1835 - 466 pages
...another meaning of his " spirit of system." In the sentence next to that I have quoted above, he says, " A system which attempts a task so hard as that of...one or two principles, if it presents some striking conformity to superficial appearances, is sure to delight the framer ; and for a time, to subdue and... | |
 | James Mill - Encyclopaedia Britannica - 1835 - 448 pages
...that genius for system, which, though it cramps the growth of knowledge, perhaps finally atones for that mischief, by the zeal and activity which it rouses among followers and opponents." First of all, we need to understand what Sir James means by " the spirit of system ; " which produces... | |
 | William Whewell - Induction (Logic) - 1837 - 646 pages
...mischief by the zeal and activity which it rouses among fol1 Mackintosh on Hobbes, Dissert, p. 177. lowers and opponents, who discover truth by accident, when in pursuit of weapons for their warfare." The list of Werner's pupils for a considerable period included most of the principal geologists of... | |
 | William Whewell - Science - 1837 - 1046 pages
...mischief by the zeal and activity which it rouses among fol1 Mackintosh on Hobbes, Dissert. p. 177. lowers and opponents, who discover truth by accident, when in pursuit of weapons for their warfare." The list of Werner's pupils for a considerable period included most of the principal geologists of... | |
 | Sir James Mackintosh - Canada - 1846 - 618 pages
...Wisdom, "is the over-early and peremptory reduction of knowledge into arts and methods, from which for that mischief, by the zeal and activity which it rouses...to superficial appearances, is sure to delight the tramer, and, for a time, to subdue and captivate the student too entirely for sober reflection and... | |
 | William Whewell - Physical sciences - 1847 - 740 pages
...that genius for system, which, though it cramps the growth of knowledge, perhaps finally atones for that mischief by the zeal and activity which it rouses...among followers and opponents, who discover truth 1 Mackintusli on Hobbcs, Dissert, p. I77by accident, when in pursuit of weapons for their warfare."... | |
 | William Whewell - Natural theology - 1847 - 744 pages
...that genius for system, which, though it cramps the growth of knowledge, perhaps finally atones for that mischief by the zeal and activity which it rouses...among followers and opponents, who discover truth 1 Mackintosh on Hobbes, Dissert, p. 1?7. by accident, when in pursuit of weapons for their warfare."... | |
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... warfare. A system which attempts a task so hard as that of subjecting vast provinces of human knowledge to one or two principles, if it presents some striking... 
