 Few human creatures would consent to be changed into any of the lower animals, for a promise of the fullest allowance of a beast's pleasures : no intelligent human being would consent to be a. fool, no instructed person would be an ignoramus, no person...  The Contemporary Review - Page 5181879Full view - About this book
 | WILLIAM DE WITT HYDE - 1904 - 306 pages
...existence which employs their higher faculties. Few human creatures would consent to be changed into any of the lower animals, for a promise of the fullest...feeling and conscience would be selfish and base, even though they should be persuaded that the fool, the dunce, or the rascal is better satisfied with... | |
 | Hastings Rashdall - Ethics - 1907 - 344 pages
...according to Mill, the wise man will not do : ' few human creatures would consent to be changed into any of the , lower animals, for a promise of the fullest allowance of a beast's ' pleasures V He admits therefore that such a man desires some' thing other than pleasure. What makes him think... | |
 | John Dewey, James Hayden Tufts - Ethics - 1908 - 646 pages
...changed into any of the lower animals, for a promise of the fullest allowance of a beast's pleasure; no intelligent human being would consent to be a fool,...feeling and conscience would be selfish and base, even though they should be persuaded that the fool, the dunce or the rascal is better satisfied with... | |
 | John Dewey, James Hayden Tufts - Education and state - 1908 - 644 pages
...opportunity to exercise all the powers in question. "Few human creatures would consent to be changed into any of the lower animals, for a promise of the fullest allowance of a beast's pleasure; no intelligent human being would consent to be a fool, no instructed person would be an ignoramus,... | |
 | Benjamin Rand - Ethics - 1909 - 832 pages
...existence which employs their higher faculties. Few human creatures would consent to be changed into any of the lower animals, for a promise of the fullest...feeling and conscience would be selfish and base, even though they should be persuaded that the fool, the dunce, or the rascal is better satisfied with... | |
 | Pharmaceutical industry - 1909 - 466 pages
...Satisfied With Yourself}— John Stuart Mill says: "Few human creatures would consent to be changed into any of the lower animals, for a promise of the fullest allowance of beastly pleasures; no intelligent human being would consent to be a fool, no instructed person would... | |
 | William De Witt Hyde - Conduct of life - 1911 - 328 pages
...existence which employs their higher faculties. Few human creatures would consent to be changed into any of the lower animals, for a promise of the fullest...feeling and conscience would be selfish and base, even though they should be persuaded that the fool, the dunce, or the rascal is better satisfied with... | |
 | Frank Thilly - Philosophy - 1914 - 640 pages
...pleasures, and that persons who have experienced both prefer the higher ones. No intelligent person would consent to be a fool; no instructed person would be an ignoramus ; no person of feeling or conscience would consent to be selfish or base. You would not exchange your lot for that of a fool,... | |
 | Joseph Berg Esenwein, Dale Carnegie - Oratory - 1915 - 536 pages
...joys, and we grovel. "Few human creatures," says John Stuart Mill, "would consent to be changed into any of the lower animals for a promise of the fullest...feeling and conscience would be selfish and base, even though he should be persuaded that the fool, or the dunce, or the rascal is better satisfied with... | |
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