 | John Arthur Thomson - 1911 - 274 pagine
..."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 bounds of human empire, to the effecting of all things possible." — FRANCIS BACON. Science for its own Sake — Science and... | |
 | William Henry Hudson - 1912 - 302 pagine
...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, and the enlarging of the bounds of human empire to the effecting of all things possible." In this double-sided programme Bacon clearly indicates his... | |
 | Royal Society (Great Britain) - 1912 - 594 pagine
...which discovery and invention might proceed apace. By such means, he believed, man could attain to ' 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.' l He held that ' there is much ground for hoping that there... | |
 | 1893 - 1024 pagine
...the sciences, arts, manufactures, and inventions of all the world;" the end of their foundation being 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." What the " father of Salomon's House " enumerates as the... | |
 | Ralph Barton Perry - 1912 - 408 pagine
...Francis Bacon prophesied, and which posterity has steadily achieved. "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." l The value of theory and belief is in the end the same.... | |
 | Columbia University - 1913 - 810 pagine
...Francis Bacon heard in Solomon's House, the university of New Atlantis: "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." Respectfully submitted, FREDERICK JE WOODBRIDGE, Dean. June... | |
 | Johann Valentin Andreä - 1914 - 324 pagine
...the college is held, and the purpose which is ascribed to it : 1 " The knowledge 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." 2 " It so fell out that there was in one of the boats one... | |
 | Columbia University - 1914 - 404 pagine
...Francis Bacon heard in Solomon's House, the university of New Atlantis: "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." Respectfully submitted, FREDERICK JE WOODBRIDGE, Dean. June... | |
 | Abraham Cowley - 1915 - 416 pagine
...founded by the lawgiver Solomona. Its aim was ' the finding out of the true nature of all things ', ' 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.' It was a great national college, endowed on a lavish scale... | |
 | George Philip Krapp - 1915 - 578 pagine
...of all parts of the world." *0 " The end of our Foundation " (he is speaking of Solomon's House) "is the knowledge of Causes, and secret motions of things; and the enlarging of the bounds " Works, V, 362. " Ibid., p. 384. of Human Empire, to the effecting of all things possible." " The... | |
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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. 
