On the relations of free knowledge to moral sentiment. A lecture delivered in University College, London, on the 13th of October, 1847. As introductory to the session of 1847-8 / [Francis William Newman].

Francis William Newman

Date:: 1847

Credit: On the relations of free knowledge to moral sentiment. A lecture delivered in University College, London, on the 13th of October, 1847. As introductory to the session of 1847-8 / [Francis William Newman]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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the results which the enlargement of knowledge produces, none so sensibly affects my own mind as its tendency to reconcile good men to one another, to moderate the conflict between the diverse orders of a State, and to cement the scattered and distant members of the human family. And it is certainly a pleasing hope, perhaps by no means Utopian, that when purer and brighter light has been vouchsafed to future generations—when the mist of controversies has been worked clear by the successive strivings of gallant, truth- loving minds, — disunion may mark only the ignorant and untaught; war between enlightened nations may be morally impossible; wisdom may have more influence over public measures than wealth or faction; and to the men of that day the Baconian maxim may be supplanted by another,— u Knowledge is Love.”

On the relations of free knowledge to moral sentiment. A lecture delivered in University College, London, on the 13th of October, 1847. As introductory to the session of 1847-8 / [Francis William Newman].

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