 The rapid progress true science now makes, occasions my regretting sometimes that I was born so soon. It is impossible to imagine the height to which may be carried, in a thousand years, the power of man over matter.  The Eclectic Review - Page 451publié par - 1818Affichage du livre entier - À propos de ce livre
 | Albert Truman Schwartz, John G. McEvoy - 1990 - 308 pages
...mortality. So Franklin wrote to Priestley: The rapid progress the sciences now make occasions my regrets sometimes that I was born so soon. It is impossible to imagine the heights to which may be carried in a thousand years the power of man over matter. . . . All diseases... | |
 | Barbara B. Oberg, Harry S. Stout - 1993 - 241 pages
...placing the concept of millennium in a secular framework, he wrote to Joseph Priestley late in life: It is impossible to imagine the Height to which may...Matter. We may perhaps learn to deprive large Masses of their Gravity, and give them absolute Levity, for the sake of easy Transport. Agriculture may diminish... | |
 | Robert A. Nisbet - 392 pages
...as long as the patriarchs in Genesis." And in a letter of 1780 to Joseph Priestley Franklin writes: "It is impossible to imagine the Height to which may...in a thousand years, the Power of Man over Matter." (The "thousand years" came natually, we may assume, to anyone as acquainted with Puritan millenarianism... | |
 | Editors of Ronin Publishing - 1996 - 260 pages
...beyond that of the ancient patriarchs (the antediluvian standard). BEYOND THE ANTEDILUVIAN STANDARD The rapid progress true science now makes, occasions...carried, in a thousand years, the power of man over nature. We may perhaps learn to deprive large masses of their gravity, and give them absolute levity,... | |
 | C. Vann Woodward - 1997 - 385 pages
...picture of the future. "The rapid Progress true Science now makes," he wrote to Priestley in 1780, "occasions my regretting sometimes that I was born...Matter. We may perhaps learn to deprive large Masses of their Gravity, and give them absolute Levity, for the sake of easy Transport. Agriculture may diminish... | |
 | Thomas R. Cole - 1992 - 304 pages
...articulated the new scientific approach: "The rapid progress true science now makes," he wrote in 1780, "occasions my regretting sometimes that I was born...impossible to imagine the height to which may be carried . . . the power of man over matter. . . . All diseases may by sure means be prevented or cured, not... | |
 | David Brin - 1999 - 390 pages
...technology is not new. It is illustrated by Benjamin Franklin's 1780 letter to the chemist Joseph Priestley. "The rapid progress true science now makes occasions...was born so soon. It is impossible to imagine the heights to which may be carried, in a thousand years, the power of man over matter." What might Old... | |
 | Sami I. Said - 1998 - 760 pages
...Wadie and my father and mother, for their love and support SERIES INTRODUCTION The rapid progress that true science now makes occasions my regretting sometimes that I was born too soon. It is impossible to imagine the height to which may be carried, in a thousand years, the... | |
 | Kerry S. Walters - 1999 - 236 pages
...much more skeptical about a parallel advance in morality. As he wrote to Joseph Priestley in 1780, "it is impossible to imagine the height to which may...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, that... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - 1974 - 260 pages
...that the rapid progress trut science now makes, occasions my regretting sometimes that I was bom too soon. It is impossible to imagine the height to which...matter. We may perhaps learn to deprive large masses of their gravity, and give them absolute levity, for the sake of easy transport. Agriculture may diminish... | |
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