 | University magazine - 1845 - 772 pages
...substituting for the eternal ideas of nature the subjective notions of mau : " There is no small difference between the idols of the human mind and the ideas of the divine mind ; that is to say, between certain idle dogmis (and, he mighthave added, social systems,) and the... | |
 | I. G. Rosenstein - Homeopathy - 1846 - 304 pages
...quiddam interest, inter humana mentis idola et divines mentis ideas," — the difference is not small, between the idols of the human mind, and the ideas of the divine mind, that is, between the notions and arbitrary landmarks of men, instituted on nature, and those... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1850 - 620 pages
...systems of philosophy by men's fancies. Let men learn (as we have said above) the difference that exists between the idols of the human mind, and the ideas of the Divine mind. The former are mere arbitrary abstractions ; the latter the true marks of the Creator on his... | |
 | Edwin Paxton Hood - 1851 - 224 pages
...the most general axioms, which is the true but unattempted way. " III. There is no small difference between the idols of the human mind, and the ideas of the divine mind — that is to say, between certain dogmas, and the real stamp and impression of created objects,... | |
 | Stephen Jenner - Christianity - 1854 - 402 pages
...given to him, to make manifest the truth of what Lord Bacon observes, that " there is a wide difference between the idols of the human mind and the ideas of the Divine mind." To deprecate criticism either from his style, or his mode of treating his subjects, would be... | |
 | J. R. Wolfe - Bible - 1855 - 260 pages
...class with those of Holy Writ, we may say, in the language of Bacon,1 " There is no small difference between the idols of the human mind and the ideas of the Divine mind, ie, between idle dreams and impositions, and those oracles which bear the stamp and impression... | |
 | Francis Bacon, Basil Montagu - 1857 - 612 pages
...systems of philosophy by men's fancies. Let men learn (as we have s.iid above) the difference that exists between the idols of the human mind, and the ideas of the Divine rnind. The formerare mere arbitrary abstractions; the latter the true marks of the Creator on his creatures,... | |
 | American essays - 1868 - 796 pages
...the projection of human conceits upon natural objects, he remarks that " there is no small difference between the idols of the human mind and the ideas of the Divine Mind, that is to say, between certain idle dogmas, and the real stamp and impression of created objects... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1858 - 540 pages
...tranquillity of abstract wisdom, » /. » I a condition far more heavenly. Now to this I readily assentj and indeed this which they point at as so much to...latter are the creator's own stamp upon creation, imp_rc£sed^ and defined in matter by true and exquisite lines. Truth therefore and utility are here... | |
 | Edwin Paxton Hood - Self-culture - 1858 - 276 pages
...at the most general axioms, which is the true but unattempted way. " 3. There is no small difference between the idols of the human mind, and the ideas of the divine mind—that is to say, between certain dogmas and the real stamp and impression of created objects,... | |
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There is a great difference between the Idols of the human mind and the Ideas of the divine. That is to say, between certain empty dogmas, and the true signatures and marks set upon the works of creation as they are found in nature. 
