the mind uses all
its senses to obtain, apply
some new idea
The inquiring mind uses all its senses to obtain some new idea, and to apply it to some useful purpose;
it is this spirit of research that has led to all the great results in Art and in the mechanical and chemical sciences, which we now enjoy and admire;
but it is only by very slow degrees, and by great perseverance, that such results are obtained, although the accumulation of a few years makes an enormous aggregate.
Look back a generation or two — where was then the steam-engine, where the tall stalks which indicate the sites of complicated and ingenious manufactures?
From the Introduction to The Boy’s Book of Industrial Information by Elisha Noyce, Illustrated by The Brothers Dalziel, Ward & Lock, London, 1858.
I can embrace that The inquiring mind uses all its senses to obtain some new idea.
It is the to apply it to some useful purpose that I worry about.
Isn’t it more that all the senses are used to obtain some new idea and then come up with the reason that this new idea, this new thing, is all the rage necessary not for fun, better life or anything good, but just so one isn’t left behind.
I sit in a room filled with computers that indicate the sites of complicated and ingenious manufactures.
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