The System of Nature, Volume 1 The System of Nature, Volume 1

The System of Nature, Volume 1

Publisher Description

Man seeks to range out of his sphere: notwithstanding the reiterated checks his ambitious folly experiences, he still attempts the impossible; strives to carry his researches beyond the visible world; and hunts out misery in imaginary regions. He would be a metaphysician before he has become a practical philosopher. He quits the contemplation of realities to meditate on chimeras. He neglects experience to feed on conjecture, to indulge in hypothesis. He dares not cultivate his reason, because from his earliest days he has been taught to consider it criminal. He pretends to know his date in the indistinct abodes of another life, before he has considered of the means by which he is to render himself happy in the world he inhabits: in short, man disdains the study of Nature.

GENRE
Non-Fiction
RELEASED
1789
1 January
LANGUAGE
EN
English
LENGTH
484
Pages
PUBLISHER
Public Domain
SIZE
295
KB

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