 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
 | Andrew Lang, Donald Grant Mitchell - Literature - 1898 - 562 pages
...in the world. And he thus ends one of his essays : — Permit me to enforce this most wise advice. Why trouble ourselves about matters of which, however important they may be, we Jo know nothing, and can know nothing? We live in a world which is full of misery and ignorance, and... | |
 | Richard Garnett - Literature - 1899 - 616 pages
...for it can contain nothing hut sophistry and illusion. Permit me to enforce this most 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... | |
 | Frederick Hovenden - Life (Biology) - 1899 - 340 pages
...sad spectacle European civilization presents at the present moment ! Europe armed to the teeth. 1 " 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 hc can influence somewhat less miserable and somewhat... | |
 | James Ward - Agnosticism - 1899 - 320 pages
...psychical series? In 1868 Professor Huxley wrote these words: "We HUXLEY AT VARIANCE WITH HIMSELF 55 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... | |
 | Sir Sidney Lee - Great Britain - 1901 - 558 pages
...Hume's great service to humanity is his irrefragable demonstration of what those limits are. . . . Why trouble ourselves about matters of which, however...important they may be, we do know nothing and can know-nothing ? We live in a world which is full of misery and ignorance, and the plain duty of each... | |
 | Arnold Schrag - 1904 - 108 pages
...such men should turn their minds towards religion," — in opposition to men like Huxley who had said: "Why trouble ourselves about matters of which, however...may be, we do know nothing, and can know nothing." 1) Yea, it was at last gratefully admitted that Arnold brought a strong lay mind to the study of questions... | |
 | Bible - 1905 - 820 pages
...do better than to keep constantly before our minds some wise words of the late Thomas H. Huxley : " 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 we can influence somewhat less miserable and somewhat... | |
 | Robert Green Ingersoll - Speeches, addresses, etc., American - 1906 - 398 pages
...know of no difference between matter and spirit, because we know nothing with certainty about either. Why trouble ourselves about matters of which, however...they may be, we do know nothing and can know nothing ?" — Huxley. this idea of authority. I hate dignity. I never saw a dignified man that was not, after... | |
 | Lester Frank Ward - Literary Criticism - 1906 - 428 pages
...bearing on the welfare of man, and in his celebrated address on the Physical Basis of Life he says: We live in a world which is full of misery and ignorance, and it is the plain duty of each and all of us to try to make the little corner he can influence somewhat... | |
 | David Starr Jordan, Vernon Lyman Kellogg - Evolution - 1907 - 520 pages
...foundation, for the development of the specialized conditions. CHAPTER XX REFLEXES, INSTINCT, AND REASON 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... | |
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