...first principles of ethics ; what becomes of this surprising theory ? Let us understand, once for all, that the ethical progress of society depends, not on imitating the cosmic process, still less in running away from it, but in combating it. It may seem an audacious proposal thus to pit the microcosm...

...assumes, no moral tendency or purpose or effect are predicable of the cosmic energy ; on the contrary, " the ethical progress of society depends, not on imitating the cosmic process, still less in running away from it, but in combating it." The relation of man to Nature is one of insoluble dualism...

...first principle of ethics ; what becomes of this surprising theory? Let us understand once for all that the ethical progress of society depends, not...less on running away from it. but in combating it. ... But if we may permit ourselves a larger hope of abatement of the essential evil of the world than...

..."The cosmos works through the lower nature of man, not for righteousness, but against it." And again, "The ethical progress of society depends, not on imitating the cosmic process, still less in running away from it, but in combating it." Doubtless much harm has been done to sound science by...

...brief examination of the presence or lack of evolutionary ideas in several ancient systems of ethics, " that the ethical progress of society depends not on imitating the cosmic process, still less in running away from it, but in combating it." The lecture is, of course, a solid one, but it is eminently...

...examination of the- presence or lack of evolutionary ideas in several ancient systems of ethics, " that the ethical progress of society depends not on imitating the cosmic process, still less in running away from it, but in combating it." The lecture is, of course, a solid one, but it is eminently...

...anticipates Huxley's famous judgment in Evolution and Ethics (1893): "Let us understand, once for all, that the ethical progress of society depends, not on imitating the cosmic process, still less in running away from it, but in combatting it". Or, as paraphrased by a modern scientist: "The conquest...

...time attempts to apply the analogy of cosmic nature to society. . . . Let us understand, once for all, that the ethical progress of society depends, not on imitating the cosmic process, still less in running away from it, but in combating it." These are certainly significant utterances. Not that...

...course of action which the moralized man regards as right. "Let us understand," he says, " once for all, that the ethical progress of society depends, not on imitating the cosmic process, still less in running away from it, but in combating it." l Now if this is a correct way of expressing the principle...

...the Anthropological Sectioo of the British Association in 1893. § " Let us understand once for all that the ethical progress of society depends not on imitating the cosmic process, still less in running away from it, but in combatio; it." — Huxley : " Evolution and Ethics," p. 34. pretation...