...is 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...

...wish to increase them immeasurably. Huxley said in his Romanes Lecture on Evolution and Ethics (1893), "Let us understand, once for all, that the ethical...less in running away from it, but in combating it" And although he calls it an " audacious proposal thus to pit the microcosm against the macrocosm "...

...morals " seemed to him " an illusion." In the Romanes' lecture the following year he laboured to show that "the ethical progress of society depends, not...less in running away from it, but in combating it." Goodness or virtue, so far from being characterized by " ruthless selfassertion, demands self-restraint."...

...which, 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." l It is true that here and there in this lecture, and more distinctly in the added " Prolegomena,"...

...process as described by Huxley, though adverse to the cosmic process, is its legitimate end ; it " depends not on imitating the cosmic process, still...less in running away from it, but in combating it." It is to be in the world, but not of it, to put away the old man and to put on the new, to die to the...

...introduction of the ethical nature in man. Even Huxley, in his lecture on "Evolution of Ethics" declared that, "The ethical progress of society depends, not on imitating the cosmic process, (that is, the selection of the fittest) still less running away from it, but in combating it." This...

...Romanes Lecture at Oxford, delivered on i8th May 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." I could not speak of my illustrious predecessor here without gratitude and admiration,...

...whole of the conditions which exist, but of those who are ethically the best." Again, says Huxley, "let us understand, once for all, that the ethical...less in running away from it, but in combating it." And again he tells us that while the moral sentiments have undoubtedly been evolved, yet since "the...

...creed." Huxley pronounced the course of nature " neither moral nor immoral, but nonmoral, and declared that " The ethical progress of society depends not on imitating the cosmic process but on combating it." The severity of his criticism of the Gospel narratives called out threats of...

...qualities are a reversal of all its ways. Man is at odds with the cosmos : it is ppen war between them. ' Let us understand, once for all, that the ethical...less in running away from it, but in combating it.' With this characteristic call to arms the deeply-felt address concludes.1 A similar sense of dualism,...