 | United States. Bureau of Education - 1895 - 1082 Seiten
...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 at least once a week; for perhaps the part of my brain now atrophied would thus... | |
 | 1887 - 604 Seiten
...collection of facts, but why this should have caused the atrophy of that part of the brain alone, and on which the higher tastes depend, I cannot conceive....have thus suffered : and if I had to live my life over again, I would have made a rule to read some poetry and listen to some music at least once a week,... | |
 | Charles Darwin - 1887 - 570 Seiten
...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...depend, I cannot conceive. A man with a mind more highly organised or better constituted than mine, would not, I suppose, have thus suffered ; and if I had... | |
 | Charles Darwin - 1887 - 420 Seiten
...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...depend, I cannot conceive. A man with a mind more highly organised or better constituted than mine, would not, I suppose, have thus suffered ; and if I had... | |
 | Charles Darwin - 1887 - 588 Seiten
...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...depend, I cannot conceive. A man with a mind more highly organised or better constituted than mine, would not, I suppose, have thus suffered ; and if I had... | |
 | 1888 - 758 Seiten
...machine for grinding general laws out of a large collection of facts, but why this should have caused the atrophy of that part of the brain alone, on which...again, I would have made a rule to read some poetry and listen to some music at least once every week; for perhaps the parts of my brain now atrophied would... | |
 | 1888 - 712 Seiten
...machine for grinding general laws out of a large collection of facts, but why this should have caused the atrophy of that part of the brain alone, on which...again, I would have made a rule to read some poetry and listen to some music at least once every week; for perhaps the parts of my brain now atrophied would... | |
 | William Parker Cutler - 1888 - 1034 Seiten
...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...depend, I cannot conceive. A man with a mind more highly organised or better constituted than mine, would not, I suppose, have thus suffered ; and if I had... | |
 | 1888 - 1074 Seiten
...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 again, I would have made a rule to read some poetry and listen to some music at least once every week. The loss of these tastes is a loss of happiness, and... | |
 | 1888 - 926 Seiten
...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." It is, however, strictly logical that this should have been — almost too much so, allowing for the... | |
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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. 
