George Adams (1750-1795) Quote

Man has before him all nature, the whole world with which he is surrounded for the object of his view, and the subject of his consideration; but his capacity is so circumscribed, his knowledge so straightened, his powers so limited, that he can by no means conceive the mechanism of so vast and complicate a structure.


Lectures on Natural and Experimental Philosophy (Volume 3), Chapter XXXV (p. 510)


Man has before him all nature, the whole world with which he is surrounded for the object of his view, and the subject of his consideration; but his...

Man has before him all nature, the whole world with which he is surrounded for the object of his view, and the subject of his consideration; but his...

Man has before him all nature, the whole world with which he is surrounded for the object of his view, and the subject of his consideration; but his...

Man has before him all nature, the whole world with which he is surrounded for the object of his view, and the subject of his consideration; but his...