| Edward Ancel Kimball - 1921 - 514 Seiten
...of old age, and our lives lengthened at pleasure, even beyond the antediluvian standard. Oh that the moral science were in as fair a way of improvement,...length learn what they now improperly call humanity!" Notice that Dr. Franklin speaks of true science. He was sufficiently advanced as a true scientist to... | |
| Charles Austin Beard, Mary Ritter Beard - 1927 - 840 Seiten
...lives lengthened at pleasure even beyond the antediluvian standard. O that moral science were in a fair way of improvement, that men would cease to be wolves...length learn what they now improperly call humanity!" Sir Humphrey Davy spoke with full knowledge when he said that Franklin "has in no instance exhibited... | |
| United States. Congress. Joint Committee on Atomic Energy - 1962 - 188 Seiten
...: "The rapid progress true science now makes, occasions my regretting sometimes that I was born too soon. It is impossible to imagine the height to which...length learn what they now improperly call humanity !" Benjamin Franklin well exemplifies the Interrelationship between science and the humanities. One... | |
| 1953 - 1224 Seiten
...arrived in a thousand years, the Power of Man over Matter. . . . O that Moral Science were in a fair way of improvement, that Men would cease to be Wolves...length learn what they now improperly call Humanity! — Benjamin Franklin 10 Under God, the American people owe their liberty to Thomas Paine more than... | |
| Edward Cornish - 1977 - 322 Seiten
...lives lengthened at pleasure even beyond the antediluvian standard. 0 that moral science were in a fair way of improvement, that men would cease to be wolves...length learn what they now improperly call humanity. Franklin's letter was hardly more than a momentary excursion into forecasting, but a few years later... | |
| Clarence J. Karier - 1986 - 492 Seiten
...imagine the Height to which may be carried, in a thousand years, the Power of Man over Matter. ... O that moral Science were in as fair a way of Improvement,...would at length learn what they now improperly call Humanity!34 Concerned about the improvement of the human condition, Franklin, in his Proposals Relating... | |
| C. Vann Woodward - 1997 - 385 Seiten
...Science were in as fair a way of Improvement, that Men would cease to be Wolves to one another, and the human Beings would at length learn what they now improperly call Humanity!" But this wistful qualification, this distinction between material and moral progress, was a commonplace... | |
| Kerry S. Walters - 1999 - 236 Seiten
...be carried, in a thousand years, the Power of Man over Matter." But he more pessimistically added, "O that moral Science were in as fair a way of Improvement,...length learn what they now improperly call Humanity!" 16 Franklin frequently expressed his doubts about the moral fiber of humankind. His pessimism stemmed... | |
| James Campbell - 1999 - 316 Seiten
...was that our "moral Science" could be developed and improved, perhaps even so far that we could hope "that Men would cease to be Wolves to one another,...length learn what they now improperly call Humanity" (31:456). Included in another contemporary letter was the call for "the Discovery of a Plan; that would... | |
| Edward Cornish - 2004 - 348 Seiten
...lives lengthened at pleasure even beyond the antediluvian standard. O that moral science were in a fair way of improvement, that men would cease to be wolves...length learn what they now improperly call humanity. Franklin's letter was only a momentary excursion into anticipating what might happen in the future,... | |
| |