 | Samuel Jones Gee - Aphorisms and apothegms - 1908 - 400 pages
...intention was the same as that of Salomon's House in Bacon's Neiv Atlantis : ' The end of our foundation is the knowledge of causes and secret motions of things,...human empire to the effecting of all things possible.' Cowley's main object was the advancement of learning by research. His professors were to be devoted... | |
 | Friedrich Wackwitz - 1909 - 88 pages
...Luftschiffen, Unterseebooten, noch ehe sie erfunden waren. Der Zweck der naturwissenschaftlichen Akademie ist: the knowledge of causes, and secret motions of things,...human empire, to the effecting of all things possible; kurz, Herrschaft über die Natur wird erstrebt. ') The works of Francis Bacon, herausgeg. von J. Spedding,... | |
 | Francis Bacon - Conduct of life - 1909 - 360 pages
...ordinances and rites which we observe. . " The end of our foundation is the knowledge of causes, I and secret motions of things ; and the enlarging of...human empire, to the effecting of all things possible. " The Preparations and Instruments are these. We have large and deep caves of several depths : the... | |
 | George Walter Steeves - Philosophers - 1910 - 272 pages
...philosophy " ; as he here says, " The end of our foundation is the knowledge of causes and secret notions of things and the enlarging of the bounds of human empire, to the effecting of all things possible." His method and treatment of the whole subject exhibit his imaginative genius to an extent not to be... | |
 | Columbia University. Teachers College - Education - 1910 - 200 pages
...Bacon puts the words : " The end of our foundation is the knowledge of the cause and secret motion of things ; and the enlarging of the bounds of human empire to the effecting of all things possible."3 Again in the " Novum Organum " Bacon sounds the same humanistic note : " Now the true and... | |
 | Willystine Goodsell - Humanism - 1910 - 198 pages
...Bacon puts the words : " The end of our foundation is the knowledge of the cause and secret motion of things ; and the enlarging of the bounds of human empire to the effecting of all things possible."3 Again in the " Novum Organum " Bacon sounds the same humanistic note : " Now the true and... | |
 | George William Kitchin - Clergy - 1911 - 310 pages
...and fruit of knowledge. Now, as then, " the End of our Foundation is the Knowledge of Causes, and the secret motions of things ; and the enlarging of the...Empire, to the effecting of all things possible." 2 And nothing so much inclined the spirits of our ancestors towards advance and reform of various shades... | |
 | John Arthur Thomson - Science - 1911 - 274 pages
..."The end of our foundation [Salomon's House in the New Atlantis] is the knowledge of causes and the secret motions of things; and the enlarging of the...empire, to the effecting of all things possible." — FRANCIS BACON. Science for its own Sake — Science and Practical Lore — Science and Occupation... | |
 | Ralph Barton Perry - Philosophy, Modern - 1912 - 408 pages
...which Francis Bacon prophesied, and which posterity has steadily achieved. "The end of our foundation is the knowledge of causes, and secret motions of...empire, to the effecting of all things possible." l The value of theory and belief is in the end the same. Both are forms of knowledge, and knowledge... | |
 | William Henry Hudson - History - 1912 - 302 pages
...arts. "For," as the Father of the House is made to inform his visitors, "the end of our foundation is the knowledge of causes and secret motions of things,...human empire to the effecting of all things possible." In this double-sided programme Bacon clearly indicates his idea of what science should be and should... | |
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The end of our foundation is the knowledge of causes, and secret motions of things; and the enlarging of the bounds of human empire, to the effecting of all things possible. 
