...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...

...Monthly, p. 21.] J See The Genesis of Species, p. 325. « [December Monthly, p. 189.] We read also : Social progress means a checking of the cosmic process...and the substitution for it of another, which may he called the ethical process. It depends (he tells us on the next page) not on imitating the cosmic...

...that championed by Mr. Drummond. Mr. Huxley, in a noted lecture, defines social progress thus : " It means a checking of the cosmic process at every step,...which exist, but of those who are ethically the best." And, according to this authority, "the ethical progress of society depends upon combatting the cosmic...

...cosmic process upon the evolution of society, is the greater the more rudimentary its civilization. Social progress means a checking of the cosmic process...which exist, but of those who are ethically the best. As I have already urged, the practice of that which is ethically best — what we call goodness or...

...the business of civilized man to find for his conduct a higher law. " Social progress," he says, " means a checking of the cosmic process at every step,...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...

...these qualities are in him, the more rapidly will he advance in the future. Says Professor Huxley : " Social progress means a checking of the cosmic process...which exist, but of those who are ethically the best." We say : Social progress becomes possible only through a more comprehensive and deeper understanding...

...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...fittest, in respect of the whole of the conditions which obtain, but of those who are ethically the best.20 As I have already urged, the practice of that which...

...of the enemy of ethical nature.'' 1 So far from the Ascent of Man running along the ancient line, " Social progress means a checking of the cosmic process...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...

...neither increase nor diminish the force of the intuition that this is beautiful and that is ugly. * * Social progress means a checking of the cosmic process...another which may be called the ethical process. * * The practice of what we call goodness or virtue involves a course of conduct which, in all respects, is...

...natural man to follow his * " Nineteenth Century," February, 1888. non-moral course," and further, " Social progress means a checking of the cosmic process...another, which may be called the ethical process." That is to say, Huxley separated Nature into two portions. The earlier prehuman portion in which the...