 | London metrop. tabernacle - 1885 - 900 Seiten
...some years since, yet perhaps many of us have at times felt with him : — " I protest," he said, " that if some great power would agree to make me always...sort of clock, and wound up every morning before I get oat of bed, I should instantly close with the offer." We might venture to suggest whether some... | |
 | Thomas Henry Huxley - 1870 - 400 Seiten
...experimental fact — namely, that it is a 'machine capable of adjusting itself within certain limits. I protest that if some great Power would agree to...should instantly close with the offer. The only freedom 1 care about is the freedom to do right ; the freedom to do wrong I am ready to part with on the cheapest... | |
 | 1871 - 608 Seiten
...Jerusalem. VII. In his address to the Young Men's Christian Society at Cambridge, Dr. Huxley writes, " I protest that if some great power would agree to...should instantly close with the offer. The only freedom that I care about is the freedom to do right ; the that is, ever to have been said by Dr. Huxley, a... | |
 | 1878 - 920 Seiten
...nascent, which then exists." Mr. Huxley pithily expresses the necessitarian doctrine when he protests, "that if some great power would agree to make me always...of bed, I should instantly close with the offer." Positivism, notorious as it has become, has few adherents of any mark. Since Comte, the names of only... | |
 | 1870 - 498 Seiten
...experimental fact — namely, that it is a machine capable of adjusting itself within certain limits. I protest that if some great Power would agree to...me always think what is true and do what is right, 0n condition of being turned into a sort of clock and wound up every morning before I got out of bed,... | |
 | Lucius Edwin Smith, Henry Griggs Weston - 1871 - 528 Seiten
...physiological doctrine of volition, makes the following practical proposition : " I protest," he says, " that if some great power would agree to make me always...of bed, I should instantly close with the offer." We think it would be hard for Prof. Huxley to show, on his own ground, that he is not already moved... | |
 | 1871 - 780 Seiten
...the Spectator when it was delivered, he expresses a wish that some great power would always make him think what is true and do what is right, on condition...a sort of clock, and wound up every morning before he got out of bed: he says, "I should instantly close with the offer." It is not a noble view of the... | |
 | Christian Evidence Society - 1871 - 552 Seiten
...a mistake. * Professor Huxley considers that man is a bungle. At all events he would be glad to be "turned into a sort of clock, and wound up every morning before he got out of bed," on condition that he should always "think what is true, and do what is right."... | |
 | Theophilus Parsons - 1872 - 202 Seiten
...by him to the Young Men's Christian Association of Cambridge, England, he speaks of freedom thus : " I protest that if some great Power would agree to...of bed, I should instantly close with the offer." Now these few words show plainly, first, that Professor Huxley is conscious of possessing Freedom,... | |
 | Theophilus Parsons - 1872 - 196 Seiten
...by him to the Young Men's Christian Association of Cambridge, England, he speaks of freedom thus: *M protest that if some great Power would agree to make...of bed, I should instantly close with the offer." Now these few words show plainly, first, that Professor Huxley is conscious of possessing Freedom,... | |
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I protest that if some great Power would agree to make me always think what is true and do what is right, on condition of being turned into a sort of clock and wound up every morning before I got out of bed, I should instantly close with the offer. 
