 | 1873 - 808 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... | |
 | 1873 - 842 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... | |
 | 1873 - 824 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... | |
 | George Berkeley - 1874 - 430 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... | |
 | William Thomas Brande, George William Cox - 1875 - 968 pages
...lingua, think, I may be positive in, that the power of abstracting is not at all in them, and that tho 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 unto.' But it is obvious that... | |
 | George Harris - 1876 - 588 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 by no means attain to. For it is evident we observe... | |
 | Ludwig Noiré - 1879 - 144 pages
...it was known also that the having of general ideas is that which puts a perfect distinction between man and brutes ; but that these two were only different...established as preferable to the theories both of Onomatopoeia and of Interjections. But though our modern philosophy did not know it, the ancient poets... | |
 | Max Muller - 1885 - 526 pages
...derived from general ideas — is one of the most important discoveries in the science of language. Tt was known before that language is the distinguishing...theory of roots had been established as preferable to " Farrar, Origin of Language, p. 85. ' Das Kamel,' Extrait des Mhn. de lAcad. de Vienne, classe de... | |
 | Arthur Nicols - 1885 - 316 pages
...animals : " 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," he could never have imagined... | |
 | 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... | |
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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... 
