| 1894 - 900 páginas
...for it of another, which may he called the ethical process. It depends (he tells us on the next page) not on imitating the cosmic process, still less in running away from it, but in combating it. It is yet further said : * The history of civilization details the steps by which men have succeeded... | |
| 1914 - 568 páginas
...of man, not for righteousness, but against it." And again, "The ethical progress of society depends, not on imitating the cosmic process, still less in running away from it, but in combating it." Doubtless much harm has been done to sound science by illadvised attempts to derive all higher social... | |
| Albert Shaw - 1893 - 838 páginas
...evolutionary ideas in several ancient systems of ethics, " that the ethical progress of society depends not on imitating the cosmic process, still less in running away from it, but in combating it." The lecture is, of course, a solid one, but it is eminently readable also. Tasks by Twilight. By Abbot... | |
| Albert Shaw - 1893 - 898 páginas
...evolutionary ideas in several ancient systems of ethics, " that the ethical progress of society depends not on imitating the cosmic process, still less in running away from it, but in combating it." The lecture is, of course, a solid one, but it is eminently readable also. Tasks by Twilight. By Abbot... | |
| 1928 - 556 páginas
...and Ethics (1893): "Let us understand, once for all, that the ethical progress of society depends, not on imitating the cosmic process, still less in running away from it, but in combatting it". Or, as paraphrased by a modern scientist: "The conquest of nature, not the imitation... | |
| 1893 - 804 páginas
...nature to society. . . . Let us understand, once for all, that the ethical progress of society depends, not on imitating the cosmic process, still less in running away from it, but in combating it." These are certainly significant utterances. Not that there is any essential modification of views previously... | |
| Free Religious Association (Boston, Mass.). Meeting - 1894 - 906 páginas
...leads to success in the cosmic struggle for existence." " The ethical progress of society depends, not on imitating the cosmic process, still less in running away from it, but in combating it." This, then, is the final outcome of agnosticism in the very words of Prof. Huxley, father and founder... | |
| 1894 - 384 páginas
...right. "Let us understand," he says, " once for all, that the ethical progress of society depends, not on imitating the cosmic process, still less in running away from it, but in combating it." l Now if this is a correct way of expressing the principle of cosmic evolution, we find ourselves confronted... | |
| Paul Carus - 1894 - 698 páginas
...fight the cosmos : "Let us understand, once for all, that the ethical progress of society depends, not on imitating the cosmic process, still less in running away from it, but in combating it." The risk of combating the cosmic process is great, but Professor Huxley relies on man's intelligence.... | |
| 1894 - 952 páginas
...Association in 1893. § " Let us understand once for all that the ethical progress of society depends not on imitating the cosmic process, still less in running away from it, but in combatio; it." — Huxley : " Evolution and Ethics," p. 34. pretation put upon it by later philosophers... | |
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