 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.  Southern Educational Review - Stran 1051907Celotni ogled - O knjigi
 | William C. King - 1900 - 680 strani
...music, and poetry. Shakespeare became so intolerably dull that it nauseated him. " My mind," he says, "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... | |
 | Carina Campbell Eaglesfield - 1901 - 158 strani
...all the more odd as books on hiptorv. travels, biofrraphips and essays interest me as much as ever. My mind seems to have become a kind of machine for grinding out general laws out of large collections of acts, but why this should have caused the atrophy of that... | |
 | Charles Darwin - 1902 - 372 strani
...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 grinding general laws out of large collections of , facts, but why this should have caused the atrophy of that part of the brain... | |
 | Beverley Ellison Warner - 1902 - 216 strani
...crystallized. This most pathetic testimony of Charles Darwin ought to be treasured up by every young man: — " 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 100 brain... | |
 | Robert Flint - 1903 - 706 strani
...Shakespeare, and found it so intolerably dull that it nauseated me. I have also lost my taste for pictures or music. My mind seems to have become a kind of machine for grinding general laws out of large collections of fuels, but why this should have caused the atrophy of that part of the brain alone,... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1903 - 888 strani
...involved and the possible injurious effects. It was doubtless too severe a self-analysis to say, ' My mind seems to have become a kind of machine for grinding general laws out of large collections of facts,' but it may be allowed that the scientific mood became more and more dominant... | |
 | 1903 - 706 strani
...(independently of any scientific facts which they may contain) interest me as much as ever they did. 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... | |
 | James Edward Peabody - 1903 - 362 strani
...neglecting. In the later years of his life, the great naturalist, Charles Darwin, wrote as follows : " My mind seems to have become a kind of machine for grinding general laws out of large collections of facts. ... If I were to live my life again, I would have made a rule to read some... | |
 | Robert Flint - 1903 - 698 strani
...Shakespeare, and found it so intolerably dull that it nauseated me. I have also lost my taste for pictures or music. My mind seems to have become a kind of machine for grinding general laws ont of Urge collections of facts, but why this should have cansed the al rophy of that part of the... | |
 | Clinton Locke - 1904 - 276 strani
...lately to read Shakespeare, and found it so intolerably dull that it nauseated me. ... I have almost lost my taste for pictures and music. My mind seems...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... | |
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