 | John Arthur Thomson - Natural theology - 1925 - 296 pages
...existence, the result of which is merely the survival of the most suitable, not of the best in any sense. "Let us understand, once for all, that the ethical...less in running away from it, but in combating it." "The practice of that which is ethically best—what we call goodness or virtue—involves a course... | |
 | Mary Maxwell - Political Science - 1990 - 214 pages
...natural trend of evolution should be actively opposed. "Let us understand once and for all," he said, "that the ethical progress of society depends, not on imitating the cosmic process, still less on running away from it, but in combatting it." 5 On the other hand, Peter Kropotkin, a Russian prince,... | |
 | Lawrence E. Johnson - Nature - 1993 - 316 pages
...survival of those which happen to be the fittest . . . but of those who are ethically the best. . . . The ethical progress of society depends, not on imitating...less in running away from it, but in combating it. Nor is there any guarantee that society must continue to progress, though it will certainly continue... | |
 | Helena Cronin - Science - 1991 - 510 pages
...the fitting of as many as possible to survive. It repudiates the gladitorial theory of existence ... the ethical progress of society depends, not on imitating...less in running away from it, but in combating it. (Huxley 1893, pp. 81-3) How is this achieved? Again, Huxley seems to assume that what is best at some... | |
 | Robert C. Bannister - Social Science - 1987 - 316 pages
...Huxley argued that cosmic evolution and human ethics were permanently at odds. Ethical progress depended "not on imitating the cosmic process, still less in running away from it, but in combatting it." Although restraining individual selfassertion, ethics ultimately weakened society in... | |
 | José Luis Peset, Diego Gracia Guillén - Medical - 2007 - 303 pages
...why what we call good is preferable to what we call evil" ([11], p. 80). The ethical progress, then, depends "not on imitating the cosmic process, still...less in running away from it, but in combating it. Human culture and cultivated humans need succeeded in building up an arfiticial world within the cosmos",... | |
 | Peter Gay - History - 1993 - 724 pages
...Social Darwinism to the general educated public. "Let us understand, once for all," he said bluntly, "that the ethical progress of society depends, not...less in running away from it, but in combating it." Nature is neither teacher nor friend; it is, rather, implacably the "headquarters of the enemy of ethical... | |
 | David Amigoni - Biography & Autobiography - 1995 - 228 pages
...ethics, in which self-sacrifice and 'the fitting of as many as possible to survive' are imperative. 'The ethical progress of Society depends, not on imitating...still less in running away from it, but in combating it'.70 Vivekananda's work was equally preoccupied with the place of humanity within nature, and it... | |
 | Frans B. M. de Waal, F. B. M. de Waal - Psychology - 1996 - 372 pages
...the cosmic process — are unalterable, their impact on human existence can be softened and modified. "The ethical progress of society depends, not on imitating...still less in running away from it, but in combating it."1 By viewing morality as the antithesis of human nature, Huxley deftly pushed the question of its... | |
 | Thomas Henry Huxley - Science - 1997 - 398 pages
...by man is inconsistent with the first principles of ethics; what becomes of this surprising theory? 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... | |
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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. 
