"Cognizable" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... of household objects and localities, the garden, the field, and the street. But it is only in youth and mature age, when individual things and small assemblages of them have become familiar and automatically cognizable, that those immense assemblages which landscapes present can be adequately grasped, and the highly aggregated states of consciousness produced by them, experienced. Then, however, the various minor groups of states that have been in earlier days severally produced by trees, by fields, by ...
— Essays: Scientific, Political, & Speculative, Vol. I • Herbert Spencer |
