 | Franklin Henry Giddings - Democracy - 1900 - 384 pages
...that are most widely opposed to egoistic selfassertion. " Let us understand once for all," he says, " that the ethical progress of society depends not on...less in running away from it, but in combating it." He admits that this is " an audacious proposal " ; but he thinks that man's ends are higher than the... | |
 | John Mackinnon Robertson, G. Astor Singer - 1896 - 688 pages
..."justify" our ethical concepts. Mr. Huxley talked of the " ethical progress of society " depending " not on imitating the cosmic process, still less in running away from it, but in combating it," which is as childish a piece of verbal fallacy as could well be perpetrated. Mr. Balfour turns up the... | |
 | Literary and Philosophical Society of Liverpool - 1900 - 244 pages
...history professes to tell the story •? •"The ethical progress of society," says Huxley, "depends, 4 not on imitating the cosmic process, still less in running away from it, but in combating it." And he holds that the " solid foundation " for the hope that we may do this constitutes the chief distinction... | |
 | Frank Byron Jevons - Evolution - 1900 - 360 pages
...State of Nature prevails over the surface of our planet," Mr. Huxley held that our duty lay "not in imitating the cosmic process, still less in running away from it, but in combating it." l " Cosmic nature is no school of virtue, but the headquarters of the enemy of ethical nature," and... | |
 | Abraham Willard Jackson - 1900 - 498 pages
...cosmic nature is no school of virtue, but the headquarters of the enemy of ethical nature ; " * and that the " ethical progress of society depends, not on imitating the cosmic process, . . . but in combating it." 2 However, though the difficulties of this problem are very great, it may... | |
 | Abraham Willard Jackson - Clergy - 1900 - 498 pages
...cosmic nature is no school of virtue, but the headquarters of the enemy of ethical nature ; " 1 and that the " ethical progress of society depends, not on imitating the cosmic process, . . . but in combating it." 2 However, though the difficulties of this problem are very great, it may... | |
 | Thomas Ramsden Ashworth, H. P. C. Ashworth - Proportional representation - 1901 - 246 pages
...state of nature; to substitute as far as possible social progress for cosmic evolution. He says:— Let us understand, once for all, that the ethical...less in running away from it, but in combating it. It may seem an audacious proposal thus to pit the microcosm against the macrocosm, and to set man to... | |
 | Christian sociology - 1901 - 538 pages
...hatchet " into the " natural " and " supernatural." He quotes Professor Huxley's Romanes Lecture, to show that the " ethical progress of society depends, not on imitating the cosmic process, . . . but in combating it." He consequently comes very near to Mr. Kidd in demanding a " super-rational... | |
 | William Hallock Johnson - Free will and determinism - 1903 - 98 pages
...of naturalism he intimated that the " cosmic process " " has no sort of relation to moral ends." " Let us understand, once for all, that the ethical...process, still less in running away from it, but in combatting it." * But moral sentiments, we must remember, like all conscious processes, are the products... | |
 | Richard Gause Boone - Education - 1904 - 452 pages
...must be equally beneficent in the ethical sphere " ? * In another paragraph the same author says : " Let us understand, once for all, that the ethical...less in running away from it, but in combating it. ... The history of civilization details the steps by which men have succeeded in building up an artificial... | |
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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. 
