 | Borden Parker Bowne - 1912 - عدد الصفحات: 464
...with the busy mind of man to be more cautious in meddling with things exceeding its comprehension; to stop when it is at the utmost extent of its tether; and to sit in a quiet ignorance of those things which upon examination are found to be beyond the reach of our... | |
 | Thomas Henry Huxley - 1914 - عدد الصفحات: 344
...with the busy mind of man to be more cautious in meddling with things exceeding his comprehension : to stop when it is at the utmost extent of its tether: and to sit down in quiet ignorance of those things which, upon examination, are proved to be beyond the reach of our capacities.... | |
 | John Locke - 1924 - عدد الصفحات: 438
...with the busy mind of man to be more cautious in meddling with things exceeding its comprehension, to stop when it is at the utmost extent of its (tether,...and to sit down in a quiet ignorance of those things j which, upon examination, are found to be beyond the reach of lour capacities. We should not then... | |
 | Francis La Mar Janney - 1925 - عدد الصفحات: 154
...to be more cautious in meddling with things exceeding its comprehension; to stop when it is at its utmost extent of its tether; and to sit down in a...are found to be beyond the reach of our capacities. ... If we can find out how far the understanding can extend its view, how far it has faculties to attain... | |
 | 1926 - عدد الصفحات: 890
...make the mind of man "more cautious in meddling with things exceeding its comprehension, and disposed to stop when it is at the utmost extent of its tether." He institutes a preliminary inquiry in the first book as to the existence of innate ideas, theoretical... | |
 | Lynn McDonald - 1996 - عدد الصفحات: 412
...with the busy mind of man to be more cautious in meddling with things exceeding its comprehension; to stop, when it is at the utmost extent of its tether;...are found to be beyond the reach of our capacities. (1:28) Locke was careful to balance his case on the limits to knowledge with a positive declaration... | |
 | David Hume, Eric Steinberg - 1993 - عدد الصفحات: 170
...with the busy mind of man to be more cautious in meddling with things exceeding its comprehension; to stop when it is at the utmost extent of its tether;...found to be beyond the reach of our capacities."] Besides this advantage of rejecting, after deliberate enquiry, the most uncertain and disagreeable... | |
 | Tom Sorell - 1993 - عدد الصفحات: 372
...attain to that scholastic ideal of absolutely certain knowledge. We must, rather, as Locke admonishes, 'sit down in a quiet ignorance of those things which,...are found to be beyond the reach of our capacities', and above all refrain from demanding 'certainty, where probability only is to be had'. sl 'Healthy... | |
 | Michael Martin, Lee C. McIntyre - 1994 - عدد الصفحات: 818
...more cautious in meddling with things exceeding its Comprehension; to stop, when it is at the utmost of its Tether; and to sit down in a quiet Ignorance...are found to be beyond the reach of our Capacities." At the same time, he was convinced that the powers of our understanding are sufficient for our needs... | |
 | Michel Meyer - 1995 - عدد الصفحات: 326
..."human nature." For Locke, this rooting occurs at the level of understanding, and for the same reasons: We should not then perhaps be so forward, out of an...universal Knowledge, to raise Questions, and perplex our selves and others with Disputes about Things, to which our Understandings are not suited; and of... | |
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I can discover the powers thereof, how far they reach, to what things they are in any degree proportionate, and where they fail us, I suppose it may be of use to prevail with the busy mind of man to be more cautious in meddling with things exceeding its... 
