 | Arthur Cayley Headlam - 1888 - 532 страници
...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... | |
 | John Michels - 1925 - 960 страници
...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 страници
...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 страници
...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 страници
...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 страници
...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 страници
...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 grinding...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 least once every week.... | |
 | 1888 - 938 страници
...intolerably dull that it nauseated me. I have almost lost my taste for pictures or music. . . . My mind seems to have become a kind of machine for grinding general laws out of large collections of facts. But why thw should have caused the atrophy of that part of the brain alone on which the higher tastes... | |
 | Nicholas Patrick Wiseman - 1888 - 742 страници
...dull." All his taste, too, for music and pictures equally disappears. In fact, he confesses : " My mind seems to have become a kind of machine for grinding general laws out of large collections of facts," and he loses all enjoyment from his other tastes. As we began by saying, whether for good or for ill,... | |
 | William Parker Cutler - 1888 - 1034 страници
...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... | |
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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. 
