| 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,... | |
| Benjamin Franklin - 2004 - 446 Seiten
...were in as fair a Way of Improvemeut, that Men would cease to he Wolves to one another, and that buman Beings would at length learn what they now improperly...Humanity. I am glad my little Paper on the Aurora Borealis pleas'd. If it should oecasion farther Enquiry, and so produce a hetter Hypothesis, it will not he... | |
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