 | Religion - 1894 - 384 pages
...to that course of action which the moralized man regards as right. "Let us understand," he says, " once for all, that the ethical progress of society...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... | |
 | Free Religious Association (Boston, Mass.). Meeting - Religion - 1894 - 906 pages
...in all respects, is opposed to that which leads to success in the cosmic struggle for existence." " The ethical progress of society depends, not on imitating...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... | |
 | Thomas Henry Huxley - Capital - 1894 - 380 pages
...by man is inconsistent with the first principles ofe|lncs ; what becomes of this surprising theory ? Let us understand, once for all, that the ethical...society depends, not on imitating the cosmic process, stflTless in running away from it,\ but in'combating it. It may seem an audacious ) proposal thus to... | |
 | James Iverach - Christianity - 1894 - 264 pages
...at least the life of something better than a brutal savage." (Ethics and Evolution, pp. 33, 34.) " Let us understand, once for all, that the ethical progress of society depends, not in imitating the cosmic process, still less in running away from it, but in combating it." Here Professor... | |
 | Science - 1894 - 896 pages
...for it of another, which may be called the ethical process. It depends (he tells ns on the next page) not on imitating the cosmic process, still less in running away from it, hut in combating it. It is yet further said : * The history of civilization details the steps by which... | |
 | 1894 - 702 pages
...Romanes Lecture at Oxford, delivered on May 18 last, arraigned the Cosmos for immorality, and declared that ' the ethical progress of society depends not on imitating the cosmic process, but on combating it.' 1 could not speak of my illustrious predecessor here without gratitude and admiration,... | |
 | Theology - 1895 - 592 pages
...The cosmos works through the lower nature of man, not for righteousness, but against it " (ibid.). " Let us understand, once for all, that the ethical...less in running away from it, but in combating it " (ibid.). The ethical has to guide, correct, and subordinate the cosmic process. As we cannot run... | |
 | Emma Marie Caillard - Religion and science - 1895 - 292 pages
...Address of Dr. Munro, FRSE, to the Anthropological Section of the British Association in 1893. t " Let us understand once for all that the ethical progress...less in running away from it, but in combating it." — HUXLEY, " Evolution and Ethics," p. 34 that we cannot resolve them the one into the other, but... | |
 | United States - 1895 - 620 pages
...individualism of our time" which "attempts to apply the analogy of cosmic nature to society." He says: "Let us understand, once for all, that the ethical...less in running away from it, but in combating it." FRANCES ELDREDGE RUSSELL. PUBLIC HEALTH AND NATIONAL DEFENCE, BY FRANK BUFFINGTON VROOMAN. ROME could... | |
 | Moritz Kaufmann - Socialism - 1895 - 226 pages
...not high enough for human aspiration and wants the inspiration needed to compass high moral aims. " The Ethical progress of Society depends not on imitating...cosmic process, still less in running away from it, but combating it" says Professor Huxley in his Romanes lecture at Oxford. But the combat he refers to is... | |
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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. 
