The conduct of the understandingScott, Webster, and Geary, 1823 - 186 sider |
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Side 6
... keep them in ignorance and error all their lives . Some of them I shall take notice of , and en- deavour to point out proper remedies for , in the following discourse . SECT . III . Reasoning . to BESIDES the want of determined ideas ...
... keep them in ignorance and error all their lives . Some of them I shall take notice of , and en- deavour to point out proper remedies for , in the following discourse . SECT . III . Reasoning . to BESIDES the want of determined ideas ...
Side 18
... keeps within the narrow bounds of a field or two that delight him . He that will enquire out the best books in every science , and inform himself of the most material authors of the several sects of philosophy and religion , will not ...
... keeps within the narrow bounds of a field or two that delight him . He that will enquire out the best books in every science , and inform himself of the most material authors of the several sects of philosophy and religion , will not ...
Side 51
... keeps the clear light , out of his mind , which : should lead him into truth and know- ledge ? False or doubtful positions , reli ed upon as unquestionable maxims , keep those in the dark from truth , who build on them . Such are ...
... keeps the clear light , out of his mind , which : should lead him into truth and know- ledge ? False or doubtful positions , reli ed upon as unquestionable maxims , keep those in the dark from truth , who build on them . Such are ...
Side 52
... keep them in the dark , with a belief that they ' are more in the light than any that do not see with their eyes , I shall offer this one mark whereby prejudice may be known . He that is strongly of any opi- nion , must suppose ...
... keep them in the dark , with a belief that they ' are more in the light than any that do not see with their eyes , I shall offer this one mark whereby prejudice may be known . He that is strongly of any opi- nion , must suppose ...
Side 76
... date Moses ' seven days of the first week to the notes of music , as if from thence had been taken the measure and method of the creation . It is of no small conse- quence to keep the mind from such a possession , 76 THE CONDUCT OF.
... date Moses ' seven days of the first week to the notes of music , as if from thence had been taken the measure and method of the creation . It is of no small conse- quence to keep the mind from such a possession , 76 THE CONDUCT OF.
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able accustomed apply arguments assent association of ideas brought ceived cern cial clear comprehensive conduct derstanding determined ideas disco discourse distinct ideas embrace employed endeavour enlarge enquiry error evidence examine exercise eyes faculties false fancy farther fill the head fills their heads furnish give gulate habit hinder HOLBORN ignorance improvement indiffe indifferency judge judgment keep knowledge labour lazy learned least ledge light mathematicians matters men's minds ment miscarriages mislead nature neral ness never nion notions observe oil of vitriol opinions ourselves pains passion perceived perfect plain prejudice principles proof proposition question quire rational creatures reason religion remote rest rules sciences SECT serve settled shew side sophistry sort stand suppose tain taken tenets things thoughts tincture tion train of consequences true tural understanding visible whereby wherein wholly words write
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Side 32 - I said above, that the faculties of our souls are improved and made useful to us, just after the same manner as our bodies are. Would you have a man write or paint, dance or fence well, or perform any other manual operation dexterously and with ease? let him have ever so much...
Side 8 - We sea but in part, and we know but in part, and therefore it is no wonder we conclude not right from our partial views. This might instruct the proudest esteemer of his own parts how useful it is to talk and consult with others, even such as...
Side 9 - ... him in capacity, quickness, and penetration : for, since no one sees all, and we generally have different prospects of the same thing, according to our different, as I may say, positions to it ; it is not incongruous to think, nor beneath any man to try, whether another may not have notions of things, which have escaped him, and which his reason would make use of if they came into his mind.
Side 38 - ... got the way of reasoning, which that study necessarily brings the mind to, they might be able to transfer it to other parts of knowledge, as they shall have occasion. For, in all sorts of reasoning, every single argument should be managed as a mathematical demonstration ; the connexion and dependence of ideas should be followed, till the mind is brought to the source on which it bottoms, and observes the coherence all along, though in proofs of probability one such train is not enough to settle...
Side 38 - I have mentioned mathematics as a way to settle in the mind a habit of reasoning closely and in train ; not that I think it necessary that all men should be deep mathematicians, but that, having got the way of reasoning, which that study necessarily brings the mind to, they might be able to transfer it to other parts of knowledge as they shall have occasion.
Side 23 - Nobody is made any thing by hearing of rules, or laying them up in his memory ; practice must settle the habit of doing, without reflecting on the rule...
Side 21 - ... which are looked on as natural endowments, will be found, when examined into more narrowly, to be the product of exercise, and to be raised to that pitch only by repeated actions. Some men are remarked for pleasantness in raillery ; others for apologues and apposite diverting stories. This is apt to be taken for the effect of pure nature, and that the rather, because it is not got by rules ; and...
Side 22 - ... which was much more the effect of use and practice. I do not deny that natural disposition may often give the first rise to it, but that never carries a man far without use and exercise, and it is practice alone that brings the powers of the mind as well as those of the body to their perfection. Many a good poetic vein is buried under a trade, and never produces any thing for want of improvement.
Side 14 - Every man carries about him a touchstone, if he will make use of it, to distinguish substantial gold from superficial glitterings, truth from appearances. And indeed the use and benefit of this touchstone, which is natural reason, is spoiled and lost only by assuming prejudices, over-weening presumption, and narrowing our minds.
Side 33 - Just so it is in the mind; would you have a man reason well, you must use him to it betimes, exercise his mind in observing the connexion of ideas, and following them in train. Nothing does this better than mathematics; which, therefore, I think should be taught all those who have the time and opportunity ; not so much to make them mathematicians, as to make them reasonable creatures...