 | Edwin Emery Slosson - Chemistry - 1919 - 372 pages
...eternal conflict between man and nature. In his Romanes lecture on "Evolution and Ethics" Huxley said: "The ethical progress of society depends, not on imitating the cosmic process, still less on running away from it, but on combating it," and again: "The history of civilization details the... | |
 | John Charlton Hardwick - Religion and science - 1920 - 172 pages
...clearing, whose ultimate engulfment can only be postponed, not prevented. Two quotations may suffice : " Let us understand, once for all, that the ethical...less in running away from it, but in combating it." " The theory of evolution encourages no millennial expectations. If, for millions of years, our globe... | |
 | Ralph Tyler Flewelling - Personalism - 1920 - 498 pages
...again to the warning words of a really great scientist. "Let me understand once for all," he says, "that the ethical progress of society depends, not on imitating the cosmic process, still less on running away from it, but in combating it." In all of these de-moralizing naturalistic calculations... | |
 | Edwin Grant Conklin - Democracy - 1921 - 272 pages
...each strengthens the other. In his famous Romanes Lectures on "Evolution and Ethics," Huxley says:* "Let us understand, once for all, that the ethical...less in running away from it, but in combating it." But I fancy that even in Huxley's thought the combat between ethical progress and the struggle for... | |
 | Sir Archibald Thomas Strong, Sir Archibald Strong - Nature in literature - 1921 - 204 pages
...man is inconsistent with the first principles of ethics, what becomes of this surprising theory? ' Let us understand, once for all, that the ethical...depends, not on imitating the cosmic process, still less on running away from it, but on combating it. It may seem an audacious proposal thus to pit the microcosm... | |
 | Willard Learoyd Sperry - Christianity - 1921 - 202 pages
...which leads to 67 success in the cosmic struggle. It repudiates the gladiatorial theory of existence. Let us understand, once for all, that the ethical...progress of society depends, not on imitating the cosmic struggle, still less in running away from it, but in combating it." The significance of the Romanes... | |
 | George Goring Campion - Education - 1923 - 186 pages
...which he owes, if not existence itself, at least the life of something better than a brutal savage." 2 "Let us understand once for all that the ethical progress...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... | |
 | Shapland Hugh Swinny - Positivism - 1901 - 590 pages
...to survive. It repudiates the gladiatorial theory of existence." And, again, p. 83 : — "The chief ethical progress of society depends not on imitating the cosmic process, still loss in running away from it, but in combating it. It may seem an audacious proposal thus to pit the... | |
 | William McDougall - Ethics - 1924 - 288 pages
...indications of a tendency to move along the old lines to the same results." ' Huxley concluded by saying, "Let us understand, once for all, that the ethical...less in running away from it, but in combating it." This is, as he said, "an audacious proposal"; and, if we have to accept Huxley's view that the ethical... | |
 | Charles Judson Herrick - Animal behavior - 1924 - 356 pages
...steps by which men have succeeded in building up an artificial world within the cosmos," and again, "The ethical progress of society depends, not on imitating...less in running away from it, but in combating it." The contrast here drawn between human culture and the "cosmos" betrays the cause of human evolution.1... | |
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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. 
