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" Whence comes it by that vast store which the busy and boundless fancy of man has painted on it, with an almost endless variety ? Whence has it all the materials of reason and knowledge ? To this I answer, in a word, from experience. In that all our knowledge... "
The Collected Works of Dugald Stewart: Philosophical essays. 1855 - Page 133
by Dugald Stewart - 1855
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Elements of psychology,.

Noah Knowles Davis - 1892 - 376 pages
...favorite text and formula of his followers. His doctrine he states as follows : " Whence hath mind all the materials of reason and knowledge ? To this I answer in one word, from experience ; in that all our knowledge is founded, and from that ultimately derives...
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Synonyms Discriminated: A Dictionary of Synonymous Words in the English ...

Charles John Smith - 1893 - 796 pages
...incapable of further analysis. "Whence comes it (the mind) by that vast store which the busy and boundlese fancy of man has painted on it with an almost endless variety Í whence ha« it all the materials of reason and knowledge? To this I answer in one word, from experience:...
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English Men of Letters, Volume 11

John Morley - 1894 - 618 pages
...he compares the mind to " white paper, void of all characters, without any ideas," and then asks: " Whence comes it by that vast store, which the busy...materials of Reason and Knowledge? To this I answer in one word, from Experience* In that all our knowledge is founded; and from that it ultimately derives...
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The History of Civilisation in Scotland, Volume 3

John Mackintosh - 1895 - 486 pages
...Locke, in his Second Book, proceeded to show whence the understanding receives its ideas. He asks, “Whence comes it by that vast store, which the busy...materials of reason and knowledge? To this I answer in one word, from experience: in that all our knowledge is founded, and from that it ultimately derives...
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The History of Civilisation in Scotland, Volume 3

John Mackintosh - 1895 - 484 pages
...Locke, in his Second Book, proceeded to show whence the understanding receives its ideas. He asks, "Whence comes it by that vast store, which the busy...has painted on it, with an almost endless variety t Whence has it all the materials of reason and knowledge ? To this I answer in one word, from experience...
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Locke

Thomas Fowler - 1899 - 226 pages
...he compares the mind to " white paper, void of all characters, without any ideas," and then asks: " Whence comes it by that vast store, which the busy...materials of Reason and Knowledge? To this I answer in one word, from Experience: In that all our knowledge is founded; and from that it ultimately derives...
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The Perceptionalist, or, mental science

Edward J. Hamilton - 1899 - 466 pages
...without an}' ideas; how comes it to be furnished? Whence comes it by that vast store which the bus}' and boundless fancy of man has painted on it, with...materials of reason and knowledge ? To this I answer, ill one word, from experience. In that all our knowledge is founded, and from that it ultimately derives...
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Poems

Orrin Chalfant Painter - 1899 - 58 pages
...human breast: Man never is, but always to be blest." —Pope, Essay on Man. " Whence hath the mind all the materials of reason and knowledge ? To this I answer in one word, from experience." " Hope, thou Phantom, Man beguiling, Like a siren, singing, smiling, —Locke,...
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Synonyms Discriminated: A Dictionary of Synonymous Words in the English ...

Charles John Smith - 1901 - 826 pages
...analysis. "Whence comes it (the mind) by that vast store which the busy and boundleas fancy of man hai painted on it with an almost endless variety? whence...materials of reason and knowledge? To this I answer in one word, from experience : on that all oar knowledge is founded, and from that it ultimately derive«...
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Locke

Thomas Fowler - 1901 - 294 pages
...he compares the mind to " white paper, void of all characters, without any ideas," and then asks : " Whence comes it by that vast store, which the busy and boundless Fancy of Man haa painted on it, with an almost endless variety? Whence has it all the materials of Reason and Knowledge?...
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