 Social progress means a checking of the cosmic process at every step and the substitution for it of another, which may be called the ethical process; the end of which is not the survival of those who may happen to be the fittest, in respect of the whole...  Harper's Monthly Magazine - Page 214edited by - 1902Full view - About this book
 | 1905 - 1004 pages
...that "social progress means a checking of the cos-- mic process at every step, and the sub-- stltution for It of another, which may be called the ethical...survival of those who may happen to be the fittest, 1m respect of the whole of the conditions: which obtain, but of those who are ethically the best."1... | |
 | Science - 1894 - 900 pages
...Social progress," he says, " means a checking of the cosmic process at every step, and the substitution for it of another, which may be called the ethical...fittest, in respect of the whole of the conditions which exist, but of those who are ethically the best. As I have already urged, the practice of that which... | |
 | Education - 1895 - 736 pages
...social progress thus : " It means a checking of the cosmic process at every step, and the substitution for it of another which may be called the ethical...fittest in respect of the whole of the conditions which exist, but of those who are ethically the best." And, according to this authority, "the ethical progress... | |
 | Education - 1893 - 578 pages
...civilization. Social progress means a checking of the cosmic process at every step and the substitution for it of another, which may be called the ethical...fittest, in respect of the whole of the conditions which exist, but of those who are ethically the best. As I have already urged, the practice of that which... | |
 | American literature - 1894 - 612 pages
...Social progress," he says, " means a checking of the cosmic process at every step, and the substitution for it of another, which may be called the ethical...is not the survival of those who may happen to be fittest, in respect of the whole of the conditions which exist, but of those who are ethically the... | |
 | Thomas Henry Huxley - Capital - 1894 - 380 pages
...civilization. Social progress means a checking of the cosmic process at every step and the substitution for it of another, which may be called the ethical...conditions which obtain, but of those who are ethically the best.20 As I have already urged, the practice of that which is ethically best — what we call goodness... | |
 | Paul Carus - Electronic journals - 1894 - 698 pages
...Huxley : " Social progress means a checking of the cosmic process at every step and the substitution for it of another, which may be called the ethical...fittest, in respect of the whole of the conditions which exist, but of those who are ethically the best." We say : Social progress becomes possible only through... | |
 | James Seth - Ethics - 1894 - 500 pages
...contradiction, how " social progress means a checking of the cosmic process at every step, and the substitution for it of another, which may be called the ethical...fittest, in respect of the whole of the conditions which exist, but of those who are ethically the best ; " 1 how " the practice of that which is ethically... | |
 | Henry Drummond - Evolution - 1894 - 374 pages
...line, " Social progress means a checking of the cosmic process at every step, and the substitution for it of another, which may be called the ethical...is not the survival of those who may happen to be fittest, in respect of the whole of the conditions which exist, but of those who are ethically the... | |
 | Theology - 1894 - 584 pages
...Mr. Huxley tells us, " means a checking of the cosmical process at every step and the substitution for it of another, which may 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... | |
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