The Ethic of Nature and Its Practical BearingsDouglas, 1889 - 284 Seiten |
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... England who look for similar results from the con- tempt in which the Celtic race holds the teaching of Malthus . Darwin himself does not always bear in mind the metaphorical sense in which he intended to use the term " struggle for ...
... England who look for similar results from the con- tempt in which the Celtic race holds the teaching of Malthus . Darwin himself does not always bear in mind the metaphorical sense in which he intended to use the term " struggle for ...
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... strong . Most people are familiar with Carlyle's panacea for England's political troubles . Give the tools of Government to those who can use them , was the practical drift of all his teaching , as it is THE CHOICE OF HERCULES 59.
... strong . Most people are familiar with Carlyle's panacea for England's political troubles . Give the tools of Government to those who can use them , was the practical drift of all his teaching , as it is THE CHOICE OF HERCULES 59.
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... education in con- junction . Perhaps it is fortunate that it is so , when our highest military authorities are more than hint- ing at the expediency of adopting the conscription in England . It would be a shock to English 94 THE ...
... education in con- junction . Perhaps it is fortunate that it is so , when our highest military authorities are more than hint- ing at the expediency of adopting the conscription in England . It would be a shock to English 94 THE ...
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David Balsillie. in England . It would be a shock to English feeling to decree at once that all young men , say from twenty to twenty - three , shall be liable to serve in the army . It is a question if there exists any necessity for ...
David Balsillie. in England . It would be a shock to English feeling to decree at once that all young men , say from twenty to twenty - three , shall be liable to serve in the army . It is a question if there exists any necessity for ...
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... England , for example , whole tracts of country , which once in autumn used to be covered with golden crops , are now laid down in pasture . Every year , as imported grain goes down in price , the farmer finds it to be his interest to ...
... England , for example , whole tracts of country , which once in autumn used to be covered with golden crops , are now laid down in pasture . Every year , as imported grain goes down in price , the farmer finds it to be his interest to ...
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Häufige Begriffe und Wortgruppen
animals Archæology Author better Bishop of Wakefield capitalists century Christian Church civilised cloth conscript Crown 8vo culture Darwin Darwinian DAVID DOUGLAS Demy 8vo divine duty England English fact Fcap GEORGE REID GEORGE WEBBE DASENT Gibb of Gushetneuk give Gladstone Gladstonian Government hand higher hope human idea ideal Illustrated individual industry interest Ireland Irish JOHN BROWN Johnny Gibb labour leaders LL.D Lord Lord Hartington Matthew Arnold means ment mind moral Morley nation natural selection never organic organisation origin of species Parliament party persons political poor present principle Professor Huxley progress proletaire proletariat religion Scotland Scottish sense sentient world sermon Sketches Small 4to social Socialists society species sphere spirit statesmen strong struggle sympathy syndicate teaching things thought tion trade truth University of Edinburgh vols wages weak WILLIAM young
Beliebte Passagen
Seite 219 - The great men of culture are those who have had a passion for diffusing, for making prevail, for carrying from one end of society to the other, the best knowledge, the best ideas of their time...
Seite 219 - It does not try to teach down to the level of inferior classes; it does not try to win them for this or that sect of its own, with ready-made judgments and watchwords. It seeks to do away with classes; to make the best that has been thought and known in the world current everywhere; to make all men live in an atmosphere of sweetness and light, where they may use ideas, as it uses them itself, freely, — nourished and not bound by them.
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Seite 27 - ... good; silently and insensibly working, whenever and wherever opportunity offers, at the improvement of each organic being in relation to its organic and inorganic conditions of life. We see nothing of these slow changes in progress, until the hand of time has marked the...
Seite 219 - It seeks to do away with classes; to make the best that has been thought and known in the world current everywhere; to make all men live in an atmosphere of sweetness and light, where they may use ideas, as it uses them itself, freely — nourished, and not bound by them. This is the social idea : and the men of culture are the true apostles of equality.
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Seite 12 - It is really laughable to see what different ideas are prominent in various naturalists' minds, when they speak of '' species ; " in some, resemblance is everything and descent of little weight — in some, resemblance seems to go for nothing, and Creation the reigning idea — in some, descent is the key, — in some, sterility an unfailing test, with others it is not worth a farthing. It all comes, I believe, from trying to define the undefinable.