 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
 | John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell, Henry T. Steele - American periodicals - 1877 - 812 pages
...! And this is all, except a fragment of morality, which only makes " confusion worse confounded." " Why trouble ourselves about matters of which, however...of misery and ignorance, and the plain duty of each and nil of us is to try to make the little corner he can influence somewhat less miserable, and somewhat... | |
 | 1877 - 844 pages
...has advanced very far beyond the position of his older contemporaries. Professor Huxley asked us, ' Why trouble ourselves about matters of which, however...they may be, we do know nothing and can know nothing ; ' urged us to practical work ; and told us that for this it was ' necessary to be fully possessed... | |
 | James Anthony Froude, John Tulloch - Authors - 1877 - 1470 pages
...has advanced very far beyond the position of his older contemporaries. Professor Huxley asked us, ' Why trouble ourselves about matters of which, however...they may be, we do know nothing and can know nothing ; ' urged us to practical work ; and told us that for this it was ' necessary to be fully possessed... | |
 | 1877 - 828 pages
...has advanced very far beyond the position of his older contemporaries. Professor Huxley asked us, ' Why trouble ourselves about matters of which, however...important they may be, we do know nothing and can knownothing ; ' urged us to practical work ; and told us that for this it was ' necessary to be fully... | |
 | Robert Herbert Story - Christian life - 1878 - 320 pages
...superstition. " Why trouble ourselves," says one of these apostles of the new religion of science, "about matters of which, however important they may be, we do know nothing, and can know nothing?" (these matters you must observe being all that can be included under the head of religious truth or... | |
 | 1879 - 692 pages
...school thus sets forth his idea of the duties and possibilities of life : "We live," says Huxley, " 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 - 1879 - 316 pages
...but a short time to live and is full of misery ;"J * Ps. vii. 9. f 1 Cor. iv. 5 ; 2 Cor. v. 1o. 1 " We live in a world which is full of misery and ignorance, aud the plain duty of each and all of us is to trv and make the he still acknowledges the inability... | |
 | James Hibbert - 1880 - 96 pages
...know, and Law I know, but what is this Necessity, save an empty shadow of my own mind's throwing. . . .Why trouble ourselves about matters of which, however...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... | |
 | Henry Augustus Mott - Creation - 1880 - 184 pages
...nothing but sophistry and illusion." To this Huxley says : " Permit me to enforce this wise advice, Why trouble ourselves about matters of which, however...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... | |
 | Christian evidence society - 1880 - 312 pages
...but a short time to live and is full of misery ;"f • Ps. vii. 9. f I Cor. iv. 5; 2 Cor. v. Io. t " 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 tha he still acknowledges the inability of the things of time and... | |
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