 Bacon observes, being power, the human powers will, in fact, be enlarged; nature, including both its materials, and its laws, will be more at our command; men will make their situation in this world abundantly more easy and comfortable; they will probably...  The Bee, Or Literary Intelligencer - Seite 318herausgegeben von - 1792Vollansicht - Über dieses Buch
 | Joseph Priestley - 1771 - 330 Seiten
...be made. Thus all knowledge will be fubdivided and extended ; and knowledge, as Lord Bacon obferves, being 'power, the human powers will, in fact, be enlarged...laws, will be more at our command ;men will make their fituation in this world abundantly more eafy and comfortable ; they will probably prolong their exiftence... | |
 | 1922 - 478 Seiten
...the rosy optimism of at least some of the eighteenth century men, let me quote Priestley : ' . . . nature, including both its materials and its laws, will be more at our command; men will make their situation in this world abundantly more easy and comfortable ; they will probably prolong their existence... | |
 | Elie Halévy - 1900 - 454 Seiten
...greatly superior to mankind in a former age, the individuals being taken at the same time of life... — Knowledge, as lord Bacon observes, being power, the...will be more at our command ; men will make their situation in this world abundantly more easy and comfortable; they will probably prolong their existence... | |
 | Élie Halévy - 1901 - 464 Seiten
...Bacon observes, being power, the human powers will in fact, be enlarged ; nature, including both ils materials and its laws, will be more at our command ; men will make their situation in this world abundantly more easy and eomfortable; they will prohably prolong their existence... | |
 | John Bagnell Bury - 1920 - 402 Seiten
...labour — the chief principle of organised society — is carried further he anticipates that . . . nature, including both its materials and its laws, will be more at our command ; men will make their situation in this world abundantly more easy and comfortable ; they will probably prolong their existence... | |
 | John Bagnell Bury - 1920 - 404 Seiten
...of labour—the chief principle of organised society—is carried further he anticipates that . . . nature, including both its materials and its laws, will be more at our command ; men will make their situation in this world abundantly more easy and comfortable ; they will probably prolong their existence... | |
 | Harold Wright - 1923 - 198 Seiten
...century was out Priestley's view was becoming fashionable, that, by the further division of labour, — " Nature, including both its materials and its laws, will be more at our command ; men will make their situation in this world abundantly more easy and comfortable ; they will prolong their existence in... | |
 | Charles Sherrington - 1966 - 324 Seiten
...Revolution, foresaw issuing from Science a future 'glorious and paradisiacal beyond our imagination', 'Nature, including both its materials and its laws, will be more at our command; men will make their situation in the world abundantly more easy and comfortable; they will probably prolong their existence... | |
 | William Stafford - 1987 - 320 Seiten
...Faith in progress was greatly sustained by enthusiasm for science and its advances: Thus all knowledge will be subdivided and extended; and knowledge, as...laws, will be more at our command; men will make their situation in this world abundantly more easy and comfortable; they will probably prolong their existence... | |
 | David Spadafora, James Spada - 1990 - 488 Seiten
...because civilized human beings were finally comprehending the Baconian motto that knowledge is power, "human powers will, in fact, be enlarged; nature,...laws, will be more at our command; men will make their situation in this world abundantly more easy and comfortable" — even "paradisiacal. "34 Running parallel... | |
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