The Ethic of Nature and Its Practical BearingsDouglas, 1889 - 284 Seiten |
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... matter of course , much in the way a civilised man devours his beef - steak , to the disgust of a vegetarian . Of two youths of different capacities who start life side by side , one of whom succeeds and the other fails , we never dream ...
... matter of course , much in the way a civilised man devours his beef - steak , to the disgust of a vegetarian . Of two youths of different capacities who start life side by side , one of whom succeeds and the other fails , we never dream ...
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... matter a disagreeable element which belongs less to the facts than to our manner of viewing them . Of two brothers , one of whom is strong , and leaves a sturdy offspring , while the other is weakly , and leaves a puny offspring or none ...
... matter a disagreeable element which belongs less to the facts than to our manner of viewing them . Of two brothers , one of whom is strong , and leaves a sturdy offspring , while the other is weakly , and leaves a puny offspring or none ...
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... matter of fact resignation to fate . The imagination in such a case pictures lion meeting lion in deadly conflict with each other over the scanty deer . The struggle will actually proceed rather in the lessening number of lions ...
... matter of fact resignation to fate . The imagination in such a case pictures lion meeting lion in deadly conflict with each other over the scanty deer . The struggle will actually proceed rather in the lessening number of lions ...
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... in Darwin . Variation within certain limits is now shown to be an organic progress and no matter of accident . In similar conditions of exist- ence , therefore , the variations would occur over a SURVIVAL OF THE FITTEST 39.
... in Darwin . Variation within certain limits is now shown to be an organic progress and no matter of accident . In similar conditions of exist- ence , therefore , the variations would occur over a SURVIVAL OF THE FITTEST 39.
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... matter of duty , desire the useful man to leave him to his fate , and not run any risk that might rob the world of the strong man's services . But the world would lose more by the good man shunning danger in such a cause , of however ...
... matter of duty , desire the useful man to leave him to his fate , and not run any risk that might rob the world of the strong man's services . But the world would lose more by the good man shunning danger in such a cause , of however ...
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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.
Seite 7 - By JMD MEIKLEJOHN, MA, Professor of the Theory, History, and Practice of Education in the University of St Andrews. Crown 8vo, 3s. 6d.
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.
Seite 2 - Social Life in Former Days ; Chiefly in the Province of Moray. Illustrated by letters and family p'apers. By E. DUNBAR DUNBAR, late Captain 21st Fusiliers. 2 vols. demy 8vo, price 19s.
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.