 | 1867 - 972 pages
...dreary an anticipation. It is not the utmost limit of human acquirement to know only one thing, but to combine a minute knowledge of one or a few things with a general knowledge of many things. By a general knowledge I do not mean a few vague impressions. An eminent man, one of whose... | |
 | John Stuart Mill - 1867 - 476 pages
...dreary an anticipation. It is not the utmost limit of human acquirement to know only one thing, but to combine a minute knowledge of one or a few things with a general knowledge of many things. By a general knowledge I do not mean a few vague impressions. An eminent man, one of whose... | |
 | John Stuart Mill - 1867 - 112 pages
...dreary an anticipation. It is not the utmost limit of human acquirement to know only one thing, but to combine a minute knowledge of one or a few things with a general knowledge of many things. By a general knowledge I do not mean a few vague impressions. An eminent man, one of whose... | |
 | 1868 - 848 pages
...dreary an anticipation. It is not the utmost limit of human acquirement to know only one thing, but to combine a minute knowledge of one or a few things with a general knowledge of many things. By a general knowledge I do not mean a few vague impressions. An eminent man, one of whose... | |
 | Edward John Tilt - 1868 - 470 pages
...studying her diseases. It was said by Mr. Mill, in- his address to the University of St. Andrews, that " it is the utmost limit of human acquirement, to combine a minute knowledge of one, or of a few things, with a general knowledge of many." To needlessly subdivide the study or practice of... | |
 | Edward John Tilt - 1869 - 398 pages
...It was said by Mr. Mill, in his address to the University of St. Andrews, that " it is the titmost limit of human acquirement, to combine a minute knowledge of one, or of a few things, with a e 7 oi general knowledge of many." To needlessly subdivide the study or practice... | |
 | John Stuart Mill - 1873 - 420 pages
...dreary an anticipation. It is not the utmost limit of human acquirement to know only one thing, but to combine a minute knowledge of one or a few things with a general knowl- / edge of many things. By a genej^d_kjiua:ledge. I do not ! mean a few vague impressions. An... | |
 | University of St. Andrews - 1894 - 464 pages
...dreary an anticipation. It is not the utmost limit of human acquirement to know only one thing, but to combine a minute knowledge of one or a few things with a general knowledge of many things. By a general knowledge I do not mean a few vague impressions. An eminent man, one of whose... | |
 | Pitts Edwin Howes - 1910 - 432 pages
...the exclusion of medical? " Pathology, symptomatology, diagnosis, prognosis, together with clear and definite ideas of the physiological action, range...it in his special work makes the accomplished and skillful gynecologist. "The future of gynecology, " very aptly says Dr. Reynolds in his recent address... | |
 | Richard E. Flathman - 1998 - 228 pages
...not so bad with us; ... It is not the utmost limit of human acquirement to know only one thing, but to combine a minute knowledge of one or a few things with a general knowledge of many things It is this combination which gives a ... body of cultivated intellects . . . capable of guiding... | |
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... have to expect that human nature would be more and more dwarfed, and unfitted for great things, by its very proficiency in small ones. But matters are not so bad with us ; there is no ground for so dreary an anticipation. It is not the utmost limit... 
