 Some truths there are so near and obvious to the mind, that a man need only open his eyes to see them. Such I take this important one to be, to wit, that all the choir of heaven and furniture of the earth, in a word all those bodies which compose the...  The Science-history of the Universe - Page 78by Francis Rolt-Wheeler - 1909Full view - About this book
 | Paul Elmer More - 1919 - 550 pages
...Pembroke to whom Locke had addressed his Essay. The issue was now declared, and in. what language ! — Some truths there are so near and obvious to the mind...to see them. Such I take this important one to be, to wit, that all the choir of heaven and furniture of the earth, in a word all those bodies which comprise... | |
 | Paul Elmer More - 1919 - 336 pages
...Pembroke to whom Locke had addressed his Essay. The issue was now declared, and in what language ! — Some truths there are so near and obvious to the mind...to see them. Such I take this important one to be, to wit, that all the choir of heaven and furniture of the earth, in a word all those bodies which comprise... | |
 | Cyril Edwin Mitchinson Joad - 1919 - 264 pages
...as to conceive their existing unperceived." From which it is but a step to the famous conclusion, " That all the choir of heaven and furniture of the earth, in a word, all those bodies which comprise the mighty frame of the world have not any substance without a mind—that their being is... | |
 | Paul Elmer More - 1919 - 336 pages
...mind that a man need only open his eyes to see them. Such I take this important one to be, to wit, that all the choir of heaven and furniture of the earth, in a word all those bodies which comprise the mighty frame of the world, have not any subsistence without a mind; that their being is... | |
 | Herbert Moore Pim - 1920 - 150 pages
...object and the sensation are the same thing and cannot therefore be abstracted from each other.) " Some truths there are so near and obvious to the mind...choir of heaven and furniture of the earth, in a word ail those bodies which compose the mighty frame of the world, have not any substance without a mind... | |
 | Jacob Gould Schurman, James Edwin Creighton, Frank Thilly, Gustavus Watts Cunningham - 1922 - 660 pages
..." Some truths there are," says this philosopher in a passage too famous to quote without apology, " so near and obvious to the mind that a man need only...viz., that all the choir of heaven and furniture of earth — in a word, all those bodies which compose the mighty frame of the world — have not any... | |
 | George Berkeley - 1922 - 346 pages
...it is but a simple step to the famous statement, § 6, " Some truths there are so near and obvious that a man need only open his eyes to see them. Such 1 take this important one to be, viz., that all the choir of heaven and furniture of the earth, in... | |
 | Gustavus Watts Cunningham - 1924 - 506 pages
...experienced by some mind; objects, therefore, exist only in being perceived or experienced by some mind. " Some truths there are so near and obvious to the mind that a man need only open his eyes to them. Such I take this important one to be, viz., that all the choir of heaven and furniture of the... | |
 | Gustavus Watts Cunningham - 1924 - 480 pages
...show disclosed through the sense-organs of the body. Or, to employ Berkeley's famous phrase, it is " all the choir of heaven and furniture of the earth, in a word, all those bodies that compose the mighty frame of the world." Reflection, however, discloses certain difficulties in... | |
 | May Sinclair - 1924 - 460 pages
...it. If you want logic read Hegel. But you'd better read Berkeley first." He read Berkeley. He read: "All the choir of heaven and furniture of the earth, in a word all these bodies which compose the mighty frame of the world, have not any subsistence without a mind —... | |
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