The objects of the present life fill the human eye with a false magnification because of their immediacy.

  • -- William Wilberforce 威廉威尔伯福斯

现实生活的对象由于其直接性,使人的眼睛充满了虚假的放大。

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We may take it to be the accepted idea that the Mosaic books were not handed down to us for our instruction in scientific knowledge, and that it is our duty to ground our scientific beliefs upon observation and inference, unmixed with considerations of a different order.

我们可以接受这样一种观点,即摩西书并不是为了传授我们科学知识而流传下来的,我们有责任把我们的科学信念建立在观察和推理的基础上,不掺杂其他顺序的考虑。

The restriction of studies of human intellect and character to studies of conscious states was not without influence on a scientific studies of animal psychology.

把对人类智力和性格的研究局限于对意识状态的研究,对动物心理学的科学研究不无影响。