 | 1876 - 592 pages
...nothing and can know ' nothing ? . . . With a view to our duty in this life, it is ne' cessary to be possessed of only two beliefs : the first, that the...verified experimentally as often ' as we like to try.' * This is the most direct, as it seems the * Professor Huxley's Lay Sermon ' On the Physical Basis... | |
 | 1869 - 718 pages
...stands alone as a force which we are free to exert in any direction we choose. Professor Huxley says, " Volition counts for something as a condition of the course of events." Wo should say it counts for a great deal. It is the link between the material and the immaterial —... | |
 | 1869 - 890 pages
...joyfully admit that the musician must be a Spirit and Divine ? Professor Huxley distinctly declares that " our volition counts for something as a condition of the course of events." These words are the most valuable and important in his whole address. They are the gleam of light seen... | |
 | 1869 - 580 pages
...fame I will repair. NOTES. MR HUXLEY says, to help the world on "effectually, it is necessary to be possessed of only two beliefs : the first, that the...something as a condition of the course of events." This would be fine, if, on his premises, our " volition " were not born of ammonia, etc. MR. HUXLEY... | |
 | John James Stewart Perowne - 1869 - 168 pages
...to exert ourselves effectually to banish ignorance and misery, we need but two beliefs, the belief " that the order of nature is ascertainable by our faculties to an extent which is practically unlimited;" and the belief, that "our volition counts for something as a condition of the course of events"? Are... | |
 | John James Stewart Perowne - 1869 - 180 pages
...to exert ourselves effectually to banish ignorance and misery, we need but two beliefs, the belief " that the order of nature is ascertainable by our faculties to an extent which is practically unlimited;" and the belief, that "our volition counts for something as a condition of the course of events"? Are... | |
 | John James Stewart Perowne (bp. of Worcester.) - 1869 - 180 pages
...to exert ourselves effectually to banish ignorance and misery, we need but two beliefs, the belief " that the order of nature is ascertainable by our faculties to an extent which is practically unlimited;" and the belief, that "our volition counts for something as a condition of the course of events"? Are... | |
 | George Western Thompson - 1869 - 468 pages
...where is the unfoldment and progress in system, and always to higher progress and fuller system, and "that our volition counts for something as a condition of the course of events?" Again, Mr. Huxley argues to show that all motion is the result of contractility, in both vegetal and... | |
 | Thomas Henry Huxley - 1869 - 30 pages
...^extejitjtvhich is pi'f'£ÍÍ£;]JjJ»>¿¿|j>n^ the seconJ^tlia^jQjjr.^-oJU tlon cmints Jb^some^Iu^^^ of events.' Each of these beliefs can be verified experimentally, as often au we like to try. Each, therefore, stands upon the strongest foundation upon which any belief can... | |
 | Thomas Henry Huxley - 1870 - 56 pages
...less ignorant than it was before he entered it. To do this effectually it is necessary to be fully possessed of only two beliefs : the first, that the...verified experimentally, as often as we like to try. Each, therefore, stands upon the strongest foundation upon which any belief can rest; and forms one... | |
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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. To do this effectually... 
