 | Dugald Stewart - 1811 - 620 pages
...prevalent at the time when he wrote : " 'Tis evident, that all the sciences have a relation, greater M or less, to human nature, and that* however wide any...one passage or another. Even mathematics, natural phi" losophy, and natural religion, are in some measure de" pendent on the science of man ; since they... | |
 | Thomas Reid - Philosophy - 1822 - 432 pages
...science. Mr. HUME hath justly observed, that " all the sciences have a relation to human nature ; and, however wide any of them may seem to run from it, they still return back by one passage or another. This is the centre andcapitol of the sciences, which being once masters of, we may easily extend our... | |
 | David Hume - Ethics - 1826 - 508 pages
...going to unfold, and would esteem it a strong presumption against it, were it so very easy and obvious. 'Tis evident, that all the sciences have a relation,...still return back by one passage or another. Even Maf/ matics, Natural Philosophy, and Natural Religion, are in some measure dependant on the science... | |
 | Thomas Reid - Act (Philosophy). - 1827 - 706 pages
...science. Mr. Hume hath justly observed, that " all the sciences have a relation to human nature ; and, however wide any of them may seem to run from it, they still return back by one passage or another. This is the centre and capital of the sciences, which being once masters of, we may easily extend our... | |
 | David M'Nicoll - 1827 - 180 pages
...greater force to the sublimer truths of Scripture; * that they all have a relation to human nature; and however wide any of them may seem to run from it, they still return back, by one passage or another. This is the centre and capital of the whole, which, being once masters of, we may easily extend our... | |
 | Dugald Stewart - 1829 - 518 pages
...Mr.-.Hume's Treatise of Human Nature \v\\\ be best explained in his own words. " 'T is evident thai all the sciences have a relation, greater or less,...still return back by one passage or another. Even Mathematies, Natural Philosophy, and Natural Religion, are in some measure dependent on the science... | |
 | David M'Nicoll - 1837 - 688 pages
...force to the sublimer truths of Scripture, — that " they all have a relation to human nature ; and, however wide any of them may seem to run from it, they still return back, by one passage or another. This is the centre and capital of the whole, which being once masters of, we may easily extend our... | |
 | Thomas Curtis (of Grove house sch, Islington) - 1839 - 812 pages
...phenomena. The objects contemplated in the Treatise of Human Nature are thus presented by the aiHhor : 'Tis evident that all the sciences have a relation,...seem to run from it, they still return back by one passase or another. Even mathematics, natural philosophy, and natural religion, are in some measure... | |
 | Thomas Reid - 1846 - 1080 pages
...Philosophical Еи»г§," Preliminary DiHtitatiori, ch. ii sciences hare a relation to human nature ; and, however wide any of them may seem to run from it, they still return back by one passage or another. This is the centre and capital of the sciences,* which, being once masters of, we may easily extend... | |
 | English literature - 1847 - 584 pages
...from Mr. Hume the following sentence, that " all the sciences have a relation to human nature ; and, however wide any of them may seem to run from it, they still return back by one passage or another. This is the centre and capital of the sciences, which being once masters of, we may easily extend otir... | |
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It is evident, that all the sciences have a relation, greater or less, to human nature ; and that, however wide any of them may seem to run from it, they still return back by one passage or another. 
