 I protest that if some great Power would agree to make me always think what is true and do what is right, on condition of being turned into a sort of clock and wound up every morning before I got out of bed, I should instantly close with the offer.  Essays and Addresses, 1900-1903 - Page 37by Sir John Lubbock - 1903 - 296 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Christian education - 1913 - 576 pages
...the class the following quotation from Professor Huxley : "I protest that if some great power would agree to make me always think what is true and do...out of bed, I should instantly close with the offer and should be a better and happier man." This proposition is invariably rejected by every member of... | |
 | Isaiah Mench Chambers - Allegories - 1906 - 538 pages
...again. Preach me! PREACH ME I" CHAPTER XVII WBECKS ALONG THE SHORE "I protest that if some power would agree to make me always think what is true and do...turned into a sort of clock and wound up every morning, I should instantly close with the offer." — Huxley. I STOOD on the shore of a vast sea— the "Sea... | |
 | Ella Lyman Cabot - Ethics - 1906 - 468 pages
...the whole question of moral responsibility : " I protest [he writes] that if some great power would agree to make me always think what is true and do...turned into a sort of clock and wound up every morning, I would instantly close with the offer." L Why is such a proposition utterly repugnant to us in spite... | |
 | Rev. C. W. Formby - Evolution, mental - 1907 - 310 pages
...Professor Huxley's words reiterate the same complaint: — "I protest that if some great Power would agree to make me always think what is true and do...turned into a sort of clock and wound up every morning, I should instantly close with the offer." Then in short, we recognize this strong contrast : — On... | |
 | Frank Ballard - Apologetics - 1908 - 220 pages
...have no existence. Even the late Prof. Huxley's famous "protest," that " if some great Power would agree to make me always think what is true, and do...out of bed, I should instantly close with the offer" — tacitly concedes that no such offer is either actual or possible. Nor did any man know better than... | |
 | Thomas Henry Huxley - Readers - 1910 - 446 pages
...machine capable of adjusting itself within certain 5 limits. I protest that if some great Power would agree to make me always think what is true and do...clock and wound up every morning before I got out 10 of bed, I should instantly close with the offer.0 The only freedom I care about is the freedom to... | |
 | James Ward - Philosophy - 1911 - 516 pages
...moral." So Huxley: "I protest," he said, "that if some great Power would agree to make me think always what is true and do what is right on condition of being turned into a sort of clock... I should instantly close with the bargain. The only freedom I care about is the freedom to do right... | |
 | James Ward - Philosophy - 1911 - 516 pages
..."that if some great Power would agree to make me think always what is A World in 'leading strings' 373 true and do what is right on condition of being turned into a sort of clock... I should instantly close with the bargain. The only freedom I care about is the freedom to do right... | |
 | William Burgess - 1913 - 94 pages
...must have been suffering a fit of the blues when he said: "I protest that if some great Power would agree to make me always think what is true and do...turned into a sort of clock and wound up every morning, I should instantly close with the offer." What a miserable bargain that would be ! Worse than Esau's... | |
 | John Bartlett, Nathan Haskell Dole - Quotations - 1914 - 1514 pages
...Shelved round us lie The mummied authors. THOMAS HENRY HUXLEY. 1825-1895. If some great Power would agree to make me always think what is true and do...out of bed, I should instantly close with the offer. Materialism and Idealism. If a little knowledge is dangerous, where is a man who has so much as to... | |
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