 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
 | Tryon Edwards - Quotations, English - 1908 - 788 pages
...longer preach, he leaves me strength enough to teach thin poor child the alphabet."— J. Chaplin. Vie and all of us is to try to make the little corner he can influence somewhat lese miserable and somewhat... | |
 | Thomas Henry Huxley - Readers - 1910 - 446 pages
...it can contain nothing but sophistry and illusion." 0 25 Permit me to enforce this most wise advice. Why trouble ourselves about matters of which, however...and can know nothing? We live in a world which is 5 full of misery and ignorance, and the plain duty of each and all of us is to try to make the little... | |
 | James Ward - Philosophy - 1911 - 516 pages
...504 ff. in God and a future life is no better than the wish, the agnostic simply asks with Huxley: "Why trouble ourselves about matters of which, however...they may be, we do know nothing, and can know nothing P1 " Or still more emphatically with Clifford he sums up his ethics of belief by declaring that " it... | |
 | James Ward - Philosophy - 1911 - 516 pages
...Reason 413 in God and a future life is no better than the wish, the agnostic simply asks with Huxley: "Why trouble ourselves about matters of which, however...they may be, we do know nothing, and can know nothing p1 " Or still more emphatically with Clifford he sums up his ethics of belief by declaring that " it... | |
 | Henry Blaine - 1912 - 224 pages
...still be inexcusable, for he has no solid grounds for believing. " Why," asks Professor Huxley,1 " trouble ourselves about matters of which, however important they may be, we know nothing, and can know nothing ? " The great danger [says Karl Pearson] of most existing systems... | |
 | University of Calcutta - 1912 - 746 pages
...— 16 L Jfu,*iuipivlfkliill_ /(.•»'/ A//fl I 3. Translate into classical Armenian : — 25 (a) We live in a world which is full of misery and ignorance. (&) The life of all truly great men has been a life of intense and incessant labour. ( •) We should... | |
 | Frederick William Roe, George Roy Elliott - Literary Collections - 1913 - 512 pages
...passage seem to forget that the subject-matter of Ethics and 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 5 Corner he can influence somewhat less miserable and somewhat... | |
 | Raymond Macdonald Alden - English prose literature - 1917 - 376 pages
...necessity, is as utterly devoid of justification as the most baseless of theolbgi'cal dogmas. . . . 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... | |
 | James Cloyd Bowman - American essays - 1918 - 504 pages
...for it can contain nothing but sophistry and illusion."1 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... | |
 | Washington Gladden - Congregational churches - 1918 - 282 pages
...but sophistry and illusion." To which Mr. Huxley adds, " Permit me to enforce this most wise advice. Why trouble ourselves about matters of which, however...they may be, we do know nothing and can know nothing? " I do not think that Mr. Huxley was always quite so near-sighted as this, but here he shows himself... | |
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