 | Friedrich Max Müller - 1887 - 720 pages
...Understanding, bk. ii. c. 1 1. par. 10, 1 1, ' that the power of abstracting is not at all in beasts ; and that the having of general ideas is that which puts a perfect distinction betwixt man and brutes, and is an excellency which the faculties of brutes do by no means attain to. For, it is evident, we... | |
 | George John Romanes - 1889 - 482 pages
...degree ; this I think I may be positive in, that the power of abstracting is not at all in them ; and that the having of general ideas is that which puts a perfect distinction betwixt man and brutes, and is an excellency which the faculties of brutes do by no means attain * In my previous work I devoted... | |
 | Aubrey Lackington Moore - 1890 - 426 pages
...quotation from the " Essay," which draws the line between man and brute at the power of abstracting — " the having of general ideas is that which puts a perfect distinction betwixt man and brutes, and is an excellency which the faculties of brutes do by no means attain to." In the next chapter we... | |
 | Friedrich Max Müller - 1891 - 636 pages
...degree : this, I think, I may be positive in, that the power of abstracting is not at all in them ; and that the having of general ideas is that which puts a perfect distinction betwixt man and brutes, and is an excellency which the faculties of brutes do by no means attain to.' If Locke is right in... | |
 | 1873 - 864 pages
...degree, this, I think, I may be positive in, that the power of abstracting is not at all in them ; and that the having of general ideas is that which puts a perfect distinction betwixt man and brutes, and is an excellency which the faculties of brutes do by no means attain to. For, it is evident, we... | |
 | David Josiah Brewer - 1899 - 470 pages
...degree, this, I think, I may be positive in, that the power of abstracting is not at all in them; and that the having of general ideas is that which puts a perfect distinction betwixt man and brutes, and is an excellency which the faculties of brutes do by no means attain to." If Locke is right in... | |
 | 1900 - 470 pages
...degree, this, I think, I may be positive in, that the power of abstracting is not at all in them; and that the having of general ideas is that which puts a perfect distinction betwixt man and brutes, and is an excellency which the faculties of brutes do by no means attain to." If Locke is right in... | |
 | George Berkeley, Alexander Campbell Fraser - 1901 - 466 pages
...which puts the widest difference in point of understanding betwixt man and beast. Thus speaks he : ' The having of general ideas is that which puts a perfect distinction betwixt man and brutes, and is an excellency which the facultys of brutes do by no means attain unto. For it is evident we... | |
 | Mayo Williamson Hazeltine - 1903 - 454 pages
...degree, this, I think, I may be positive in, that the power of abstracting is not at all in them; and that the having of general ideas is that which puts a perfect distinction betwixt man and brutes, and is an excellency which the faculties of brutes do by no means attain to." If Locke is right in... | |
 | Mayo Williamson Hazeltine - 1905 - 460 pages
...degree, this, I think, I may be positive in, that the power of abstracting is not at all in them; and that the having of general ideas is that which puts a perfect distinction betwixt man and brutes, and is an excellency which the faculties of brutes do by no means attain to." If Locke is right in... | |
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If it may be doubted, whether beasts compound and enlarge their ideas that way, to any degree: this, I think, I may be positive in, that the power of abstracting is not at all in them; and that the having of general ideas, is that which puts a perfect... 
