...natural man to follow his * " Nineteenth Century," February, 1888. non-moral course," and further, " Social progress means a checking of the cosmic process...another, which may be called the ethical process." That is to say, Huxley separated Nature into two portions. The earlier prehuman portion in which the...

...Monthly, p. 21.] \ See The Genesis of Species, p. 325. * [December Monthly, p. 189.] We read also : Social progress means a checking of the cosmic process...another, which may be called the ethical process. It depends (he tells ns on the next page) not on imitating the cosmic process, still less in running...

...distinct from the cosmical. "Social progress," Mr. Huxley tells us, " means a checking of the cosmical process at every step and the substitution for it...be called the ethical process ; the end of which is hot the survival of those who may happen to be the fittest, in respect of the whole conditions which...

...: "Cosmic nature is no school of virtue, but the headquarters of the enemy of ethical nature. . . . Social progress means a checking of the cosmic process...is not the survival of those who may happen to be fittest, in respect to the whole of the conditions which exist, but of those who are ethically the...

...setting in of a glacial epoch causes the survival of a purely Arctic fauna. " Social progress means the checking of the cosmic process at every step, and...may happen to be the fittest in respect of the whole of the conditions which obtain, but of those which are ethically the best." We have here a new standard,...

...the maintenance and success of them is a question of popular charac"' Social progress," he tells us, "means a checking of the cosmic process at every step...ethical process; the end of which is not the survival of who may happen to be the fittest, in respect of the whole of the conditions which obtain, but of those...

...deliberate expression to the outstanding contrast between the cosmic process and the ethical, showing that 'social progress means a checking of the cosmic process at every step.' When a discovery such as Darwin's has been made, which revolutionises the accepted thought of past...

...the cosmic process on the evolution of society is the greater, the more rudimentary its civilization. Social progress means a checking of the cosmic process...happen to be the fittest, in respect of the whole of the conditions which exist, but of those who are ethically the best, THOMAS HUXLEY. Viewed merely...

...the cosmic process on the evolution of society is the greater, the more rudimentary its civilisation. Social progress means a checking of the cosmic process...the end of which is not the survival of those who happen to be fittest, in respect of the whole of the conditions which exist, but of those which are...

...Contemporary Review. Dec. 1896, p. 762. And yet again, Professor Huxley says with equal emphasis that " Social progress means a checking of the cosmic process...another which may be called the ethical process." ' These thinkers, working from very different philosophical and religious standpoints, arrive unanimously...