If our knowledge of the earth and of the heavens, of animals and of man, of the past condition and present laws of the world, is quite barren of all suggestion of what may or may not hereafter be the lot of man, such knowledge will lose the charm which would have made it most precious and attractive in the eyes of mankind in general.


The Plurality of Worlds, Chapter XIII (p. 294), Gould & Lincoln. 1854

William Whewell Quotes

If our knowledge of the earth and of the heavens, of animals and of man, of the past condition and present laws of the world, is quite barren of all...

If our knowledge of the earth and of the heavens, of animals and of man, of the past condition and present laws of the world, is quite barren of all...

If our knowledge of the earth and of the heavens, of animals and of man, of the past condition and present laws of the world, is quite barren of all...

If our knowledge of the earth and of the heavens, of animals and of man, of the past condition and present laws of the world, is quite barren of all...