The Ethic of Nature and Its Practical BearingsDouglas, 1889 - 284 Seiten |
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... beast and creep- ing thing . The very serpent was permitted to stand on his own legs in those days , and presented his fangs , all innocent of venom , for his CHAP PAGE INTRODUCTION-THE TRADITIONALIST AND PRO- FESSOR HUXLEY,
... beast and creep- ing thing . The very serpent was permitted to stand on his own legs in those days , and presented his fangs , all innocent of venom , for his CHAP PAGE INTRODUCTION-THE TRADITIONALIST AND PRO- FESSOR HUXLEY,
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... things . The mere statement of the vulgar belief in special creation is self - contradictory . It supposes an order of nature which yet is no order . It professes to satisfy man's desire to know his universe by pointing him to the ...
... things . The mere statement of the vulgar belief in special creation is self - contradictory . It supposes an order of nature which yet is no order . It professes to satisfy man's desire to know his universe by pointing him to the ...
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... the organic world by dislike to the pithecoid origin of man . He strongly inclined to account for the origin of all species of living things by natural causes , although he still wished to retain the term 14 SURVIVAL OF THE FITTEST.
... the organic world by dislike to the pithecoid origin of man . He strongly inclined to account for the origin of all species of living things by natural causes , although he still wished to retain the term 14 SURVIVAL OF THE FITTEST.
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... thing as a 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 ...
... thing as a 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 ...
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... things than any of the schemes which have been accepted by the credulity and welcomed by the superstition of seventy later generations of men " ( Life and Letters of Darwin , vol . ii . p . 180 ) . It would be strange if the world in ...
... things than any of the schemes which have been accepted by the credulity and welcomed by the superstition of seventy later generations of men " ( Life and Letters of Darwin , vol . ii . p . 180 ) . It would be strange if the world in ...
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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.