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" And all depends on keeping the eye steadily fixed upon the facts of nature and so receiving their images simply as they are. For God forbid that we should give out a dream of our own imagination for a pattern of the world... "
The philosophical works of Francis Bacon, with prefaces and notes by the ... - Page 32
by Francis Bacon, Robert Leslie Ellis, William Rawley - 1861
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Reforming Philosophy: A Victorian Debate on Science and Society

Reforming Philosophy: A Victorian Debate on Science and Society

Laura J. Snyder - Science - 2010 - 386 pages
...upon the external world. He admonished that "all depends on keeping the eye steadily fixed upon the facts of nature and so receiving their images simply as they are. For God forbid that we should 220. Ibid., 4:92-93; see also Paolo Rossi, 'Ants, Spiders, Epistcmologists," p. 255. 221. Elsewhere,...
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The IPod Tutor: The Argument Against Richard Dawkins' the God Delusion

The IPod Tutor: The Argument Against Richard Dawkins' the God Delusion

Intelligent C The Intelligent Community, Barry Krusch - Religion - 2007 - 164 pages
...evidence. . . . Now I have five minutes left to give you a message to take home. The message is simple. "God forbid that we should give out a dream of our own imagination for a pattern of the world". This was said by Francis Bacon, one of the founding fathers of modern science, almost four hundred...
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Locke, Language and Early-Modern Philosophy

Locke, Language and Early-Modern Philosophy

Dawson
...depends on keeping the mind's eye fixed on things themselves, so that their images are received exactly as they are. For God forbid that we should give out a dream of our imagination for a pattern of the world; but may He rather grant of His grace that we may write a revelation...
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Back to Nature: The Green and the Real in the Late Renaissance

Back to Nature: The Green and the Real in the Late Renaissance

Robert N Watson - Literary Criticism - 2007 - 436 pages
...when the Great Instauration announces that "all depends on keeping the eye steadily fixed upon the facts of nature and so receiving their images simply...we should give out a dream of our own imagination," rather than hoping for God to "graciously grant us to write an apocalypse or true vision of the footsteps...
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The Medical Times and Gazette

The Medical Times and Gazette, Volume 2

Medical - 1868
...(inir-ttr. AuguatS, 1SŤ3. 157 keeping the eye steadily fixed upon the facts of nature, and so seeing their images simply as they are. For God forbid that...pattern of the world. Rather may He graciously grant us a true vision of the footsteps of the Creator imprinted on His creatures." (Nov. Org. pr. i.) "...
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