Man's Place in the Cosmos: And Other EssaysW. Blackwood and sons, 1897 - 308 páginas |
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... least the life of something better than a brutal savage . fellows . istence . " " · · · • • In short , " social progress means a checking of the cosmic process at every step , and the substitution for it of another which may be called ...
... least the life of something better than a brutal savage . fellows . istence . " " · · · • • In short , " social progress means a checking of the cosmic process at every step , and the substitution for it of another which may be called ...
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... least apparent that if man with his virtues and vices be included simpliciter and with- out more ado in a merely natural order of facts , we inevitably tend to lose sight of that nature within na- ture which makes man what he is . The ...
... least apparent that if man with his virtues and vices be included simpliciter and with- out more ado in a merely natural order of facts , we inevitably tend to lose sight of that nature within na- ture which makes man what he is . The ...
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... least to excuse , every passion on the ground of its " natural " origin . This temper of mind is found invading even more serious writers , and it is traceable ultimately to the same confusion between the laws of human conduct and the ...
... least to excuse , every passion on the ground of its " natural " origin . This temper of mind is found invading even more serious writers , and it is traceable ultimately to the same confusion between the laws of human conduct and the ...
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... least singularly successful in producing that impres- sion upon their readers . On another important point connected with , and indeed involved in , the foregoing , Professor Huxley , by an unguarded statement , laid himself open to a ...
... least singularly successful in producing that impres- sion upon their readers . On another important point connected with , and indeed involved in , the foregoing , Professor Huxley , by an unguarded statement , laid himself open to a ...
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... least in possibility , to the meanest human life . The endless redistribution of matter and motion in stupendous cycles of evolution and dissolution would be a world without any justification to offer for its existence a world which ...
... least in possibility , to the meanest human life . The endless redistribution of matter and motion in stupendous cycles of evolution and dissolution would be a world without any justification to offer for its existence a world which ...
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Página 6 - 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.
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