...expressed by St. Augustine in his Confessions, that " men go abroad to admire the height of mountains, and mighty billows of the sea, the broad tides of rivers,...the circuits of the stars, and pass themselves by," — to perish for lack of knowledge. IV. On the situation of the Organ of Amativeness. By HERBERT SPENCER....

...within? how then doth it not comprehend itself? A wonderful admiration surprises me, amazement seizes me. And men go abroad to admire the heights of mountains,...the broad tides of rivers, the compass of the ocean, the circuits of the stars, and pass themselves by ; nor even wonder, that when I speak of all these...

...am. . . . Men go abroad to admire the heights of mountains, the mighty billows of the sea, the broa-i tides of rivers, the compass of the ocean, and the circuits of the star>. and pass themselves by ; nor wonder, that when I spake of all these things, I did not see them...

...admire the heights of mountains, and the great waves of the sea, and the widest flow of rivers, and the compass of the ocean, and the circuits of the stars, and leave themselves beJtind."1 Following the early mandate, thus seconded by the most persuasive of the...

...containeth not of itself? Is it without it, and not within ? how then doth it not comprehend itself? A wonderful admiration surprises me, amazement seizes...stars, and pass themselves by ; nor wonder, that when I sptikc of all these things, I did not see them with mi no eyes, yet could not have spoken of them,...

...containeth not of itself? Is it without it, and not within? how then doth it not comprehend itself? A wonderful admiration surprises me, amazement seizes...mountains, billows, rivers, stars, which I had seen, ^nd that ocean which I believe to be, inwardly in my memory, and that, with the same vast spaces between,...

...memory, excessive great, O my God ; a large and boundless chamber ! who ever sounded the bottom thereof? Men go abroad to admire the heights of mountains,...the circuits of the stars, and pass themselves by." Memory works through cunning laws of association. It links facts like beads upon mental processes,...

...world. "Men go to gape at mountain peaks, at the boundless tides of the sea, the broad sweep of the rivers, the compass of the ocean, and the circuits of the stars; and yet they leave themselves unnoticed; they do not marvel at themselves."33 Lastly, there are the claims...

..."And men go abroad to admire the heights of mountains, the mighty billows of the sea, the broad tide of rivers, the compass of the ocean, and the circuits of the stars, and pass themselves by." Stunned by the coincidence between this passage and his situation, Petrarch was catalyzed into a process...

...has to strike Petrarch as a rebuke. It is the same passage I quoted in the beginning of this chapter: "And men go abroad to admire the heights of mountains,...the circuits of the stars, and pass themselves by." In the Confessions this passage is preceded by sentences extolling the immeasurable capacity of human...