 My mind seems to have become a kind of machine for grinding general laws out of large collections of facts ; but why this should have caused the atrophy of that part of the brain alone on which the higher tastes depend, I cannot conceive.  Elementary Biology: Plant, Animal, Human - Página 163por James Edward Peabody, Arthur Ellsworth Hunt - 1912 - 593 páginasVista completa - Acerca de este libro
 | Medical and Chirurgical Faculty of the State of Maryland - 1887 - 1134 páginas
...it so intolerably dull that it nauseated me. I have also almost lost my taste for pictures or music. My mind seems to have become a kind of machine for grinding out general laws out of large collections of facts." These indications of the methods by which Nature... | |
 | United States. Bureau of Education - 1895 - 1082 páginas
...poetry; Shakespeare nauseated him, and he had entirely lost his taste for music. " My mind," he says, " seems to have become a kind of machine for grinding...general laws out of large collections of facts. If I had to live my life over again I would have made a rule to read some poetry and listen to some mnsic... | |
 | Arthur Cayley Headlam - 1888 - 532 páginas
...engrossed him and encouraged him by their fruitful results. And so he himself describes his mind as having become a kind of machine for grinding general laws out of large collections of facts. He lost his pleasure in poetry and music and painting ; he came, in his own words, not to be able to... | |
 | 1919 - 714 páginas
...so inexpressibly dull that it nauseated me. I have also almost lost my taste for pictures and music. My mind seems to have become a kind of machine for grinding out general laws out of a large collection of facts ; but why this should have caused the atrophy of... | |
 | John Michels - 1925 - 960 páginas
...periods of complete rest and sanitarium treatment, can one wonder that, in his own words, his mind should become a "kind of machine for grinding general laws out of large collections of facts," and that there should be a corresponding "atrophy of that part of the brain . . . on which the higher... | |
 | Charles Darwin - 1887 - 420 páginas
...which they may contain), and essays on all sorts of subjects interest me as much as ever they did. My mind seems to have become a kind of machine for...grinding general laws out of large collections of facts, but why this should have caused the atrophy of that part of the brain alone, on which the higher tastes... | |
 | Charles Darwin - 1887 - 588 páginas
...which they may contain), and essays on all sorts of subjects interest me as much as ever they did. My mind seems to have become a kind of machine for...grinding general laws out of large collections of facts, but why this should have caused the atrophy of that part of the brain alone, on which the higher tastes... | |
 | Charles Darwin - 1887 - 570 páginas
...which they may contain), and essays on all sorts of subjects interest me as much as ever they did. My mind seems to have become a kind of machine for...grinding general laws out of large collections of facts, but why this should have caused the atrophy of that part of the brain alone, on which the higher tastes... | |
 | 1887 - 604 páginas
...which they may contain), and essays on all sorts of subjects, interest mo as much as they ever did. My mind seems to have become a kind of machine for grinding general laws out of a Inrge collection of facts, but why this should have caused the atrophy of that part of the brain... | |
 | 1888 - 1074 páginas
...ot a man whose learning and great powers of research made him famous, I mean Charles Darwin : — " My mind seems to have become a kind of machine for...general laws out of large collections of facts. . . If I had to live my life again, I would have made a rule to read some poetry and listen to some music at... | |
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