...And this is not confined to physical things, but is extended to moral. "Social progress," he says, "means a checking of the cosmic process at every step...happen to be the fittest, in respect of the whole of the conditions which obtain, but of those who are ethically the best." 2 And this leads to the final...

...He does not deny that ' men in society . . . are subject to the cosmic process,' but he holds that 'social progress means a checking of the cosmic process...another, which may be called the ethical process.' He also asserts that 'the practice of what we call goodness or virtue involves a course of conduct...

...not on imitating the cosmic process, still less in running away from it, but in combating it." l " Social progress means a checking of the cosmic process...another, which may be called the ethical process." 2 It is illusory to seek in nature a type of the good to be striven for by us, and able to place us...

...such as the mathematical and musical faculties.2 In 1893, Huxley said in the Romanes Lecture, that ' Social progress means a checking of the cosmic process...another which may be called the ethical process.' In other words, natural 1 Infra, p. 55. 2 Darwinism, ch. xv. selection and the continuous accumulation...

...man's freedom and worth;—which must still animate the eloquence or the appeal of secularism." (3.) " Social progress means a checking of the cosmic process...step and the substitution for it of another which may in be called ' the ethical process.'"—Romanes Lecture, 1893 : " Evolution and Ethics." The position...

...to the development of intelligent beings for whom, as Huxley says, in his Romanes lecture in 1893, " Social progress means a checking of the cosmic process...another which may be called the ethical process." The phrase " cosmic process " has been subjected to searching criticism. It is somewhat vague, though not...

...conscious control, and must assume our full dignity as man. As Huxley said, in Evolution and Ethics:— "Social progress means a checking of the cosmic process...another, which may be called the ethical process. . . . It is from neglect of these plain considerations that the fanatical individualism of our time...

...and places him selfcentered and supreme amid the cosmic forces. He says : Social progress means the checking of the cosmic process at every step and the...which may be called the ethical process. . . . The cosmic process has no sort of relation to moral ends. The imitation of it by man is inconsistent with...

...set to fight; whereby the strongest, the swiftest, the cunningest, live to fight another day." may be the ethical process ; the end of which is not the...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." And the proof...

...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 at every step and the substitution of it for another, which may be called the ethical process ; the end of which is not the survival of...