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 | Melbourne Stuart Read - 1902 - 120 Seiten
...subject to the cosmic process. The strongest, the most self-assertive, tend to tread down the weaker. But social progress means a checking of the cosmic process...end of which is not the survival of those who may hap|>en to be the fittest in respect of the whole of the conditions which exist, but of those who are... | |
 | Melbourne Stuart Read - 1902 - 122 Seiten
...tend to tread down the weaker. But social progress means a checking of the cosmic process at ever}r step, and the substitution for it of another which...may happen to be the fittest in respect of the whole of the conditions which exist, but of those who are ethically the best. The practice of that which... | |
 | James Thompson Bixby - 1902 - 236 Seiten
...should pit itself against the macrocosm, and " social progress means a checking of the cosmic progress at every step and the substitution for it of another which may be called the ethical progress." Such, in substance, is the string of pyrotechnical paradoxes through which the eminent English... | |
 | Richard Theodore Ely - 1903 - 530 Seiten
...in the most rudimentary stages and declines as civilization advances. " Social Progress," he says, " means a checking of the cosmic process at every step,...those who may happen to be the fittest, in respect to the whole of the conditions which exist, but of those who are ethically the best." ! Later biological... | |
 | William Hurrell Mallock - 1903 - 312 Seiten
...or the "Ethical process," which attacks the cosmic process at every step, and substitutes for it a process . . . the end of which is not the survival...happen to be the fittest, in respect of the whole of the conditions which exist, but of those which are ethically the best. ..." The history of civilisation,"... | |
 | John Henry Wilbrandt Stuckenberg - 1903 - 360 Seiten
...was stated above, that adaptation to the physical environment cannot be the supreme law. He says: " Social progress means a checking of the cosmic process at every step and the substitution of another which may be called the ethical process ; the end of which is not the survival of those... | |
 | John Atkinson Hobson - 1904 - 360 Seiten
...Thus Huxley, for example, has endeavoured to contrast social with cosmic development, urging that " Social progress means a checking of the cosmic process...happen to be the fittest, in respect of the whole of the conditions that exist, but of those who are ethically the fittest." 1 The loose logic of this... | |
 | 1905 - 858 Seiten
...noimprovement in society. Allowing that the "cosmic process" governed Nature, he went on to declare that "social progress means a checking of the cosmic process...end of which is not the survival of those who may bappen to be the fittest, in respect of the whole of the conditions which obtain, but of those who... | |
 | James Seth - 1905 - 498 Seiten
...tVip^ngmjp, prongs at evpry step, and the substitution Tor it ofjmother. which may be called TihlTethical process, the end of which is not the survival of those...happen to be the fittest, in respect of the whole of the conditions which exist, but of those who are ethically the best;" s how " the practice of that"... | |
 | 1905 - 622 Seiten
...Oxford fifteen years ago, after taking the position that nature is governed by cosmic forces, he said: "Social progress means a checking of the cosmic process...substitution for it of another, which may be called ethical process; the end of which is not the survival of those who may happen to be the fittest, in... | |
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