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" ... all philosophical experiments that let light into the nature of things, tend to increase the power of man over matter, and multiply the conveniences or pleasures of life. "
Proceedings, American Philosophical Society (vol. 104, no. 4, 1960) - Page 355
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Education in the United States: A Series of Monographs, Volume 1

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...
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Franklins̓ Autobiography, Volume 10

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...
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Benjamin Franklin, Self-revealed: A Biographical and Critical ..., Volume 1

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...
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Liberalism and American Education in the Eighteenth Century

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,...
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Liberalism and American Education in the Eighteenth Century

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,...
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The Rise of American Civilization, Volume 1

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...
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National Foundation on the Arts and the Humanities Amendments of ..., Part 1

United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Labor and Public Welfare. Special Subcommittee on Arts and Humanities - 1973 - 1170 pages
...encourage men to discover, and to communicate their discoveries, whatever in nature or technology might "tend to Increase the Power of Man over Matter, and multiply the Conveniences or Pleasures of Life." The Society's full name, adopted in 1769, expresses the purpose...
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Administration of the Federal Reclamation Program: Hearing Before the ...

United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Energy and Natural Resources - Government publications - 1978 - 306 pages
...emphasizing "new mechanical inventions for saving labor . . . nature of soil and productions . . . and all philosophical experiments that let light into...increase the power of man over matter, and multiply the conveniences or pleasures of life. Alexander Hamilton's "Report on Manufactures" in the Federalist...
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Science & Engineering Education for the 1980's & Beyond

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...
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The Puritans in America: A Narrative Anthology

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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