 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
 | Gerald Rowley Leighton - 1910 - 312 strani
...facts 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 alone,... | |
 | Frances Campbell Berkeley Young - 1910 - 502 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 5 large collections of facts, but why this should have caused the atrophy of that part of the brain... | |
 | 1911 - 696 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 facts; but why this should have caused the atrophy of that part of the brain alone,... | |
 | Charles Darwin - 1911 - 586 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 alone,... | |
 | Cyrus Townsend Brady - 1912 - 282 strani
...to read Shakespeare and have found it so intolerably dull that it nauseated me. I have also almost lost my taste for pictures and music. . . . My mind...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, Arthur Ellsworth Hunt - 1912 - 656 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 lifj again, I would have made a rule to read some... | |
 | John Theodore Merz - 1912 - 658 strani
...Biographies and Travels, 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, &c. " (' Life and Letters of Charles Darwin,' 1st ed., vol. ip 100). ,... | |
 | John Theodore Merz - 1912 - 692 strani
...Biographies and Travels, 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, &c. " (' Life and l.otteri) of Charles Darwin,' 1st ed., vol. ip 100).... | |
 | 1903 - 1038 strani
...gradual atrophy of those powers of his mind on which the higher tastes depend. "My mind," he writes, "seems to have become a kind of machine for grinding general laws out of large collections of facts." He confesses that this atrophy of the parts referred to may have been... | |
 | John Theodore Merz - 1912 - 670 strani
...and Travels, and Essays on all sorts of subjects, interest me as much as ever they did. My mind deems to have become a kind of machine for grinding general laws out of large collections of facts, &c. " ('Life and Letters of Charles Darwin,' 1st ed., vol. ip 100). In... | |
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