 We live in a world which is full of misery and ignorance, and the plain duty of each and all of us is to try to make the little corner he can influence somewhat less miserable and somewhat less ignorant than it was before he entered it.  Proceedings - Page 20by Literary and Philosophical Society of Liverpool - 1870Full view - About this book
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...emphasis a moral conclusion. ' Why trouble ourselves,' he asks, ' with anything beyond natural phenomena ? We live in a world which is full of misery and ignorance, and the plain duty of each and all of us is to try to make the little corner he can influence somewhat less miserable and somewhat... | |
 | James Booth - 1873 - 268 pages
...which, however important, we know nothing, and can know nothing.' ' We live,' he says, ' in a world full of misery and ignorance, and the plain duty of each of us is to try to make the little corner he can influence somewhat less miserable than it was before he entered it.'... | |
 | John Burley Waring - 1873 - 482 pages
...contain nothing but sophistry and illusion." " Permit me (Huxley adds), to enforce this most wise advice. Why trouble ourselves about matters of which, however important they may be (thus, he seems to allow they are of some importance), we do know nothing, and can know nothing." But... | |
 | Strivings - 1874 - 312 pages
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 | William Jackson - 1874 - 436 pages
...dogmas." (" On the Physical Basis of Life," Lay Sermons, pp. 157-8.) And again (pp. 159-60) : — " We live in a world which is full of misery and ignorance, and the un etre vivant, ce serait montrer la raison de cet ensemble et de ce progres, qui cst la vie meme "... | |
 | William Jackson - Natural theology - 1874 - 432 pages
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 | Presbyterianism - 1875 - 808 pages
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 | James M'Cann (D.D.) - 1875 - 292 pages
...Paradise regained ! Hear the words of the most intolerant, but not profoundest of them all : — " We live in a world •which is full of misery and ignorance, and the plain duty of each and all of us is to try and make the little corner he can influence somewhat less miserable and somewhat... | |
 | Christian Evidence Society - Apologetics - 1875 - 314 pages
...has but a short time to live and is full of misery ;"$ * Ps. vii. 9. f I Cor. iv. 5 ; 2 Cor. v. 1o. J "We live in a world which is full of misery and ignorance, and the plain duty of each and all of us is to trv and make the he still acknowledges the inability of the things of time and... | |
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