 | Barbara MacKinnon - Philosophy - 1985 - 710 pages
...foreign countries; new improvements in planting, gardening, and clearing land; and all philsophical experiments that let light into the nature of things,...increase the power of man over matter, and multiply the conveniences or pleasures of life. TO PETER COLLINSON, ON EXPERIMENTS AND THEORIES ON THE ELEMENTAL... | |
 | Thomas L. Pangle - Philosophy - 1990 - 344 pages
...America" (Franklin 1959-, vol. 2, 380-83). There he called for a correspondence society that would foster "all philosophical experiments that let light into...increase the power of man over matter and multiply the conveniences or pleasures of life" (the phraseology is of course from Bacon; quoted in Miller 1984,... | |
 | Lewis Perry - History - 1989 - 479 pages
...finer arts, and improve the common stock of knowledge." The time was propitious for bringing together "all philosophical experiments that let light into...increase the power of man over matter, and multiply the conveniences or pleasures of life." Not until 1769 did the old Junto give way to the American Philosophical... | |
 | Edward Carlos Carter - Philosophy - 1993 - 136 pages
...other Sorts from foreign Countries. New Improvements in Planting, Gardening, Clearing Land, &c. And all philosophical Experiments that let Light into...increase the Power of Man over Matter, and multiply the Conveniences or Pleasure of Life. "The American Philosophical Society was organized on this plan in... | |
 | Arthur M. Melzer, Jerry Weinberger, M. Richard Zinman - History - 1993 - 354 pages
...sense, is the answer to the human problem, worthy to be pursued through all methods and inventions 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." 10 6. Daniel Defoe, Robinson Crusoe (Philadelphia: JC Winston,... | |
 | Whitfield J. Bell (Jr.) - Biography & Autobiography - 1997 - 562 pages
...other Sorts from Foreign Countries. New Improvements in Planting, Gardening, Clearing Land, &c.; And all philosophical Experiments that let Light into...and multiply the Conveniencies or Pleasures of Life. That a Correspondence already begun by some intended Members, shall be kept up by the Society with... | |
 | William G. Shade - History - 1998 - 314 pages
...metaphysical speculation and accented, even beyond the Europeanph'ilosophes, the quest for useful knowledge: "all philosophical Experiments that let Light into...increase the Power of Man over Matter, and multiply the Conveniences and Pleasures of Life."'' Jefferson remained president of the Society throughout his years... | |
 | James Campbell - Printers - 1999 - 316 pages
...and the various other areas of natural philosophy that "let Light into the Nature of Things" so as "to increase the Power of Man over Matter, and multiply the Conveniencies or Pleasures of Life" (2:380-82). The subsequent establishment of the American Philosophical Society in 1744 proved to be... | |
 | Lisa Rosner, John Theibault - History - 2000 - 478 pages
...spread word about "all new arts, trades, and manufactures that may be proposed or thought of ... and all philosophical experiments that let light into...increase the power of man over matter, and multiply the conveniences or pleasures of life."8 The society became a natural forum for correspondence among all... | |
 | Joseph A. Leo Lemay - History - 2001 - 494 pages
...turn its continental expanse and diversity of facts to good account, by making them the subject of "philosophical Experiments that let Light into the...multiply the Conveniencies or Pleasures of Life." Arguing from geography, Franklin suggested that meetings should be held at Philadelphia, that "being... | |
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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. 
