How Many Miles to Babylon? How Many Miles to Babylon? "How Many Miles to Babylon" is an English language nursery rhyme. It has a Roud Folk Song Index number of 8148. The accepted modern lyrics are: <poem>How many miles to Babylon? Three score miles and ten. Can I get there by candle-light? Yes, and back again.. If your heels are nimble and your toes are light, You may get there by candle-light.</poem> A longer Scottish version has the lyrics: <poem>King and Queen of Cantelon, How many miles to Babylon? Eight and eight, and other eight. Will I get there by candle-light? If your horse be
How Are We to Live? and went through several reprints, most recently in 2004. How Are We to Live? How Are We to Live?: Ethics in an Age of Self-Interest is a book on applied ethics by bioethical philosopher Peter Singer. It was first published in 1993, with subsequent editions in later years. Singer argues that doing the right thing involves attending to the sufferings and preferences of other sentient beings. Singer presents a history of ethical thought, and attempts to refute the popular idea that humans are genetically driven to be selfish. He explains how this idea has been attributed to Thomas Hobbes and