 | George Gore - 1899 - 604 pages
...accordance with this, a man is a feeble epitome of nearly all the natural powers. Even Hume said : " It is evident that all the sciences have a relation greater or less to human nature" ("Treatise on Human Nature"). The interior of a human body is much more complicated than that of a... | |
 | Thomas Henry Huxley - 1901 - 222 pages
...in the preface, that his object has been to promote the construction of a " science of man." " "Pis evident that all the sciences have a relation, greater or less, to human nature; and that, however wide uuy of them may seem to run from it, they still return back by one passage or another. Even Mat/itmatics,... | |
 | Annie Barnett, Lucy Dale - 1911 - 488 pages
...unfold, and would icsteem it a strong presumption against it, were it so very easy and obvious. Tis evident, that all the sciences have a relation, greater...however wide any of them may seem to run from it, they will still return back by one passage or another. Even Mathematics, Natural Philosophy, and Natural... | |
 | Paul Menzer - 1911 - 448 pages
...Richter (Phil. Bibl. Bd. 35), S. 99 f. Vgl. auch die Einleitung zum Treatise of Human Nature: ,,'Tis evident, that all the sciences have a relation, greater or less, to human nature; and that howcver wide any of them may seem to run from it, they still return back by one passage or another/'... | |
 | Peter Wust - 1914 - 136 pages
...besonderem Nachdruck hebt DavidHume die Zentralstellung der Wissenschaft vom Menschen hervor. „It is evident, that all the sciences have a relation, greater or less, to human mature." So lautet einer der Einleitungssätze zum „treatise". Bei Hume tritt denn auch an vielen... | |
 | Columbia University. Department of Philosophy - 1925 - 422 pages
...introduction to Hume's Treatise. Practically all the writers mentioned above could agree with Hume that "all the sciences have a relation, greater or less, to human nature. ' '2 For all the sciences, even mathematics,3 depend in some measure at least on the science of man.... | |
 | Thomas Reid, William Hamilton, Harry M. Bracken, Thomas Reid, Sir William Hamilton - 1094 pages
...tisojl," Pw liminary Disseitatiun, cb. il PREFACE. 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... | |
 | Alexander Sissel Kohanski - 1984 - 352 pages
...physical nature. He brought the human mind into play as the measure of all things. 'Tis evident [he said] that all the sciences have a relation, greater or less, to human nature. . . . Even Mathematics, Natural Philosophy, and Natural Religion, are in some measure dependent on... | |
 | I. Bernard Cohen - 1985 - 742 pages
...science being opened up by Hume promised to restore humanity to the middle of the map of knowledge: "... all the sciences have a relation, greater or less, to human nature ... It is impossible to tell what changes and improvements we might make in these sciences were we... | |
 | Paul B. Scheurer, G. Debrock - 1988 - 406 pages
...anticipated David Hume's position that all knowledge derives, in the end, from the science of man: Tis evident that all the sciences have a relation, greater...Mathematics, Natural Philosophy, and Natural Religion. It is beyond the scope of this article to discuss the ways in which the study of Man - his soul, moral... | |
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T is evident, that all the sciences have a relation, greater or less, to human nature, and that, however wide any of them may seem to run from it, they still return back by one passage or another. 
