 | Alf J. Mapp - 2003 - 196 Seiten
...Franklin said: The rapid progress true science now makes occasions my regret sometimes that I was born too soon. It is impossible to imagine the height to which...length learn what they now improperly call humanity. Again Aldridge's observations are pertinent. He reminds us, "In his autobiography [Franklin] remarked... | |
 | Joel Garreau - 2005 - 412 Seiten
...even that of old age), and our lives lengthened at pleasure, even beyond the antediluvian standard. Oh that moral science were in as fair a way of improvement,...length learn what they now improperly call humanity." If wresting power from the gods and seeking to transcend the human condition is fundamental to who... | |
 | Francis Wheen - 2005 - 340 Seiten
...even that of old age, and our lives lengthened at pleasure even beyond the antediluvian standard. 0 that moral science were in as fair a way of improvement,...length learn what they now improperly call humanity! — letter from Benjamin Franklin to Joseph Priestley (February 8, 1780) In September 1784, a Berlin... | |
 | David Edwin Harrell, Edwin S. Gaustad, John B. Boles, Sally Foreman Griffith - 2005 - 860 Seiten
...even of old age, and our lives lengthened at pleasure beyond the antediluvian standard. 0 that more science were in as fair a way of improvement, that...improperly call humanity!... •"»""»• <•,»,, I, •""'>(•> lbi.ii o . '•• ol ,6 y,,n » tk'« Yon f '«•• Von ,u ,ai „ * «»•«(«.... | |
 | David Edwin Harrell, Edwin S. Gaustad, John B. Boles, Sally Foreman Griffith - 2005 - 860 Seiten
...even of old age, and our lives lengthened at pleasure beyond the antediluvian standard 0 that more science were in as fair a way of improvement, that...length learn what they now improperly call humanity!... •*lki«t VemoM IB °»i Vim h I Mil one S,uJi rte Kimke,«| ' »WtN»i I 164^00 "I, «.«. t>-ellr«|... | |
 | Mark Skousen, Benjamin Franklin - 2005 - 514 Seiten
...and our lives lengthened at pleasure even beyond the antediluvian standard. O that moral science were as fair a way of improvement, that men would cease...length learn what they now improperly call humanity! We make great improvements in nature daily. There is one I wish to see in moral philosophy: the discovery... | |
 | Josh Sakolsky - 2005 - 182 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!" Thomas Paine, in his Rights of Man, written in answer to Edmund Burke 's Reflections on the French... | |
 | Ralph Frasca - 2006 - 307 Seiten
...Writing to British scientist Joseph Priestley during the war, he lauded scientific advances but lamented, "O that moral Science were in as fair a Way of Improvement,...length learn what they now improperly call Humanity!" Conveying his desire to see "the Discovery of a Plan" for improving moral philosophy, an exasperated... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - 2007 - 513 Seiten
...and our lives lengthened at pleasure even beyond the antediluvian standard. O that moral science were as fair a way of improvement, that men would cease...length learn what they now improperly call humanity! We make great improvements in nature daily. There is one I wish to see in moral philosophy: the discovery... | |
 | 1906 - 536 Seiten
...February, Writing to Joseph Priestly in 1780 about the progress of physical science, he said : " Oh, that moral science were in as fair a way of improvement,...length learn what they now improperly call humanity ! " Writing to Priestly again the same year, he gave utterance to the following oft-quoted words :... | |
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... gravity, and give them absolute levity, for the sake of easy transport. Agriculture may diminish its labor and double its produce: all diseases may by sure means be prevented or cured (not excepting even that of old age), and our lives lengthened... 
