| Thomas Reid - 1850 - 496 pages
...science. Mr. Hume has justly observed, that " all the sciences have a relation to human nature ; and, however wide any of them may seem to run from it, they still return back by one passage or another. This is the centre and capitol of the sciences, which being once masters of, we may easily extend our... | |
| Thomas Chalmers - 1851 - 554 pages
...from Mr. Hume the following sentence, that <4 all the sciences have a relation to human nature ; and, however wide any of them may seem to run from it, they still return back by one passage or another. This is the centre and capital of the sciences, which being once masters of, we may easily extend our... | |
| John Lord - 1852 - 360 pages
...certainty before we become acquainted with that science." Again he says in the same connection. "It is evident that all the sciences have a relation, greater or less to human nature and however wide any of them may seem to run from it, they still return back by one passage or an other.... | |
| Dugald Stewart - 1854 - 514 pages
...from the lower animals.* The phenomena resulting from these * [" 'T is evident," says David Hume, " that all the sciences have a relation, greater or...mathematics, natural philosophy, and natural religion, arc in some measure dependent on the science of man ; since they lie under the cognizance of men, and... | |
| David Hume - 1854 - 470 pages
...unfold, and would esteem it a strong presump tion against it, were it so very easy and obvious. It is evident, that all the sciences have a relation,...one passage or another. Even Mathematics, Natural PMlosophy, and Natural Religion, are in some measure dependent on the science of MAN ; since they lie... | |
| Dugald Stewart - 1854 - 660 pages
...great objects of Mr. Hume's Treatise of Human Nature will be best explained in his own words. " Tis evident that all the sciences have a relation, greater...to human nature, and that, however wide any of them dation of some of the most necessary arts of civilized life. " I am sorry that our correspondence should... | |
| William Jackson - 1874 - 432 pages
...Nature on which he proposed to base all future philosophy. It is of course deeply interesting. " 'Tis evident that all the sciences have a relation, greater...one passage or another. Even Mathematics, Natural Philotophy, and Natural Religion, are in some measure dependent on the science of MAN ; since they... | |
| David Hume - 1874 - 604 pages
...unfold, and would esteem it a strong presumption against it, were it so very easy and obvious. 'Tis evident, that all the sciences have a relation, greater...still return back by one passage or another. Even Mathematies, Natural Philosophy, and Natural Religion, are in some measure dependent on the science... | |
| John Henry Wilbrandt Stuckenberg - 1884 - 444 pages
...non-being, substance, time, space, force, causality, and the like. In the Introduction he says correctly, " that all the sciences have a relation, greater or...they still return back by one passage or another." How comprehensive he makes the system of human nature, is evident from the following : " There is no... | |
| George Trumbull Ladd - 1891 - 474 pages
...more profound and difficult philosophical problems, in a " Treatise of Human Nature," by observing that " all the sciences have a relation, greater or less, to human nature ; " and that " in pretending, therefore, to explain the principles of human nature, we in effect propose a compleat... | |
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