 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 New Monthly Magazine - Page 218edited by - 1903Full view - About this book
 | Katharine Francis Pedrick - Idealism - 1919 - 260 pages
...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,...fittest in respect of the whole of the conditions which exist, but of those who are ethically the best." Again says Huxley: " Let us understand, once for all,... | |
 | Shapland Hugh Swinny - Positivism - 1901 - 590 pages
...civilisation. 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...whole of the conditions which obtain, but of those who aro ethically the best. .... As I have already observed, the practice of that which is ethically the... | |
 | George Goring Campion - Education - 1923 - 186 pages
...it." 1 " 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... | |
 | Max Carl Otto - Ethics - 1924 - 452 pages
...Romanes Lecture for 1893, "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 conditions which exist, but of those who are ethically the best. .... | |
 | Max Carl Otto - Ethics - 1924 - 344 pages
...Romanes Lecture for 1893, "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 conditions which exist, but of those who are ethically the best. .... | |
 | Carl Safford Patton - Christianity - 1924 - 180 pages
...nature. . . . 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...the end of which is not the survival of those who happen to be fittest, but of those who are ethically the best." 28 "Let us understand once for all,"... | |
 | William Forbes Cooley - Theology, Doctrinal - 1925 - 240 pages
...nature." "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 ethical progress of society depends, not on imitating the cosmic process, still less in running away... | |
 | Ulysses Grant Weatherly - Civilization - 1926 - 416 pages
...argument. " 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 best. „• •. .. Let us understand, once for all, that the ethical progress of society depends,... | |
 | Joseph Alexander Leighton - Ethics - 1926 - 612 pages
...man; that "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." Nature is "morally indifferent; the practice of that... | |
 | Bernhard Fehr - English literature - 1927 - 254 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...which obtain, but of those who are ethically the best. — — — As I have already urged, the practice of that which is ethically best — what we call... | |
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