 | Smithsonian Institution. Board of Regents - Discoveries in science - 1903 - 1122 pages
...far this absolute ignorance of the future is a fixed and necessary condition of human life, and hww far some application of intellectual methods may not...of the past as we have is not all of the same sort or derived from the same sources. Let us consider just what an educated man of to-day knows of the... | |
 | Smithsonian Institution. Board of Regents - Discoveries in science - 1903 - 902 pages
...and necessary condition of human life, and how far some application of intellectual methods may uot attenuate even if it does not absolutely set aside...of the past as we have is not all of the same .sort or derived from the same .sources. Let us consider just what an educated man of to-day knows of the... | |
 | Herbert George Wells - History - 1913 - 78 pages
...fixed, settled, and unchangeable as the events of the year 1600. Only about the latter he has some 23 material for belief and about the former practically...the future. And such a knowledge of the past as we 24 have is not all of the same sort or derived from the same sources. Let us consider just what an... | |
 | Herbert George Wells - History - 1913 - 72 pages
...particularly I would insist upon this, that about the . past our range of absolute certainty is very N) limited indeed. About the past I would suggest we...the future. And such a knowledge of the past as we 24 have is not all of the same sort or derived from the same sources. Let us consider just what an... | |
 | Richard Ashley Rice - Education, Higher - 1915 - 412 pages
...science; it is one of the persuasions that come into one's mind, as one assimilates the broad conception of science, that the adequacy of causation is universal;...of the past as we have is not all of the same sort or derived from the same sources. Let us consider just what an educated man of to-day knows of the... | |
 | Herbert George Wells - English literature - 1924 - 444 pages
...science; it is one of the persuasions that come into one's mind, as one assimilates the broad conception of science, that the adequacy of causation is universal;...of the past as we have is not all of the same sort or derived from the same sources. Let us consider just what an educated man of today knows of the past.... | |
 | Herbert George Wells - Science fiction, English - 1924 - 448 pages
...science; it is one of the persuasions that come into one's mind, as one assimilates the broad conception of science, that the adequacy of causation is universal;...of the past as we have is not all of the same sort or derived from the same sources. Let us consider just what an educated man of today knows of the past.... | |
 | Herbert George Wells - 1924 - 442 pages
...the future is a possible and practicable thing. And in order to support this suggestion I would cull your attention to certain facts about our knowledge...of the past as we have is not all of the same sort or derived from the same sources. Let us consider just what an educated man of today knows of the past.... | |
 | Herbert George Wells - Political Science - 1927 - 188 pages
...science; it is one of the persuasions that come into one's mind, as one assimilates the broad conception of science, that the adequacy of causation is universal;...of the past as we have is not all of the same sort or derived from the same sources. Let us consider just what an educated man of today knows of the past.... | |
 | Herbert George Wells - Socialism - 1927 - 184 pages
...an impression of the superior reality and trustworthiness of things THE DISCOVERY OF THE FUTURE 69 in the past, as of things that have finally committed...of the past as we have is not all of the same sort or derived from the same sources. Let us consider just what an educated man of today knows of the past.... | |
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Only about the latter he has some material for belief and about the former practically none. And the question arises how far this absolute ignorance of the future is a fixed and necessary condition of human life, and how far some application of intellectual... 
