| Nicholas Murray Butler - Education - 1910 - 1152 pages
...other sorts from foreign countries; new improvements in planting, gardening, and clearing land, and all philosophical experiments that let light into...increase the power of man over matter, and multiply the conveniences or pleasures of life." The publication of transactions began in 1799 and of proceedings... | |
| Benjamin Franklin - Statesmen - 1910 - 216 pages
...mathematics, chemistry, mechanics, arts, trades and manufactures, geography, topography, agriculture, and " all philosophical experiments that let light into...increase the power of man over matter, and multiply the conveniences and pleasures of life." "Benjamin Franklin, the writer of this proposal, offers himself... | |
| William Cabell Bruce - Biography & Autobiography - 1917 - 560 pages
...interests of every sort. A correspondence with the Royal Society of London and the Dublin Society and "all philosophical experiments that let light into...increase the power of man over matter, and multiply the conveniences or pleasures of life" were among the things held out in the proposal. Colonial America... | |
| Allen Oscar Hansen - Education - 1926 - 354 pages
...connections with societies of similar character all over the world. To carry forward this communication of "all philosophical experiments that let light into...increase the power of man over matter, and multiply the conveniences or pleasures of life," 1 a 1 Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society, Vol. Ill,... | |
| Allen Oscar Hansen - Education - 1926 - 360 pages
...connections with societies of similar character all over the world. To carry forward this communication of "all philosophical experiments that let light into...increase the power of man over matter, and multiply the conveniences or pleasures of life," 1 a 1 Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society, Vol. IlI,... | |
| Charles Austin Beard, Mary Ritter Beard - United States - 1927 - 840 pages
...of the Society was the promotion of the applied sciences and practical arts and the encouragement of "all philosophical experiments that let light into...increase the power of man over matter, and multiply the conveniences and pleasures of life." Its membership included virtually all the leading representatives... | |
| National Science Foundation (U.S.) - Engineering - 1980 - 96 pages
...they attached to these pursuits when they organized the American Philosophical Society to cultivate ' 'all philosophical experiments that let light into...increase the power of man over matter, and multiply the conveniences and pleasures of life." 1 Thanks in part to the combination of vision and practicality... | |
| Alan Heimert, Andrew Delbanco - Biography & Autobiography - 1985 - 462 pages
...terms of John Locke's conception of property and embodied Francis Bacon's nobler vision of encouraging "philosophical experiments that let light into the...increase the power of man over matter, and multiply the conveniences and pleasures of life." Franklin, long gone from Boston (where he had both admired and... | |
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