 | United States. Bureau of the Census - 1980 - 220 oldal
...Ability To Function Ren£ Dubos Benjamin Franklin once expressed his belief that a time would come when "all diseases may by sure means be prevented or cured, not excepting those of old age, and our lives lengthened at pleasure even beyond the antediluvian standard." Franklin's... | |
 | René Jules Dubos - 1980 - 572 oldal
...Franklin once expressed in a letter to the chemist Joseph Priestley his belief that a time would come when "all diseases may by sure means be prevented or cured, not excepting that of old age, and our lives lengthened at pleasure even beyond the antediluvian standard." Depending... | |
 | Merle Eugene Curti - 970 oldal
...carried, in a thousand years, the Power of Man over Matter. We may perhaps leam to deprive large Masses of their Gravity and give them absolute Levity, for...produce; all Diseases may by sure means be prevented if not cured, not excepting Old Age, and our Lives lengthened at pleasure even beyond the antediluvian... | |
 | Thomas R. Cole - 1992 - 304 oldal
...impossible to imagine the height to which may be carried . . . the power of man over matter. . . . All diseases may by sure means be prevented or cured,...even that of old age, and our lives lengthened at pleasure."27 Franklin and other Enlightenment figures reflect the modern movement away from understanding... | |
 | Editors of Ronin Publishing - 1996 - 260 oldal
...carried, in a thousand years, the power of man over nature. We may perhaps learn to deprive large masses of their gravity, and give them absolute levity, for...sake of easy transport. Agriculture may diminish its labor and double its produce; all disease may by sure means be prevented or cured, not excepting even... | |
 | C. Vann Woodward - 1997 - 385 oldal
...carried, in a thousand years, the Power of Man over Matter. We may perhaps learn to deprive large Masses of their Gravity, and give them absolute Levity, for...Diseases may by sure means be prevented or cured, not excepted even that of Old Age, and our Lives lengthened at pleasure even beyond the antediluvian Standards."... | |
 | William B. Schwartz - 2000 - 200 oldal
...century later Benjamin Franklin echoed the scientific euphoria of the age in forecasting the day when "all diseases may by sure means be prevented or cured, not excepting that of old age, and our lives lengthened at pleasure even beyond the antediluvian standard." 2 However,... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - 1974 - 260 oldal
...carried, in a thousand years, the power of man over matter. We may perhaps learn to deprive large masses of their gravity, and give them absolute levity, for...or cured, not excepting even that of Old Age, and oar lives lengthened at pleasure even beyond the antediluvian standard. Franklin realized that many... | |
 | Renée Rose Shield, Stanley M. Aronson - 2003 - 264 oldal
...wished he had been born later in order to reap the advantages of scientific accomplishment in which "all diseases may by sure means be prevented or cured,...of old age, and our lives lengthened at pleasure" (quoted by Cole 1992:xxiv). Old age had developed associations with loneliness, loss of productivity,... | |
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The rapid progress true science now makes, occasions my regretting sometimes that I was born so soon. It is impossible to imagine the height to which may be carried, in a thousand years, the power of man over matter. We may perhaps learn to deprive large... 
