Evolution and Ethics and Other EssaysMacmillan, 1894 - 334 pages |
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animal appears Atman become believe body Booth-Clibborn Bramwell Booth Buddhism called cause character chest of drawers civilization Collected Essays cosmic process cosmos Darkest England declare desire doctrine doubt energy essential eternal ethical evidence evil evolution fact faith favour fittest food-stuffs garden Gautama Greek hand headquarters Heracleitus Hibbert Lectures human ideal industrial intelligence Istar Karma labour Lanzerote Lectures less letter Lilly living matter means ment merely mind moral nature Nirvana obedience object Officer opinion organization pains Papacy person phenomena philosophy physical science plants political possess practical present principles production progress Progress and Poverty proposition question reason religious Rhys Davids Salvation Army scheme sense sentient social society soul spirit statement stoical Stoics struggle for existence substance suppose surely T. H. HUXLEY tendency things thought tion true trust truth vital capital wages wealth whole work-stuff
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Page 95 - L'homme n'est qu'un roseau le plus faible de la nature, mais c'est un roseau pensant. Il ne faut pas que l'univers entier s'arme pour l'écraser. Une vapeur, une goutte d'eau, suffit pour le tuer. Mais quand l'univers l'écraserait, l'homme serait encore plus noble que ce qui le tue, parce qu'il sait qu'il meurt; et l'avantage que l'univers a sur lui, l'univers n'en sait rien. Toute...
Page 62 - The practice of that which is ethically best — what we call goodness or virtue — involves a course of conduct which, in all respects, is opposed to that which leads to success in the cosmic struggle for existence.
Page 52 - All Nature is but Art, unknown to thee; All Chance, Direction, which thou canst not see; All Discord, Harmony not understood; All partial Evil, universal Good : And, in spite of Pride, in erring Reason's spite, One truth is clear, Whatever is, is right.
Page 60 - It is the notion that because, on the whole, animals and plants have advanced in perfection of organization by means of the struggle for existence and the consequent "survival of the fittest" ; therefore men in society, men as ethical beings, must look to the same process to help them towards perfection.
Page 66 - Of all the western stars, until I die. It may be that the gulfs will wash us down: It may be we shall touch the Happy Isles, And see the great Achilles, whom we knew. Tho' much is taken, much abides; and tho...
Page 184 - As among these, so among primitive men, the weakest and stupidest went to the wall, while the toughest and shrewdest, those who were best fitted to cope with their circumstances, but not the best in any other sense, survived.
Page 313 - There are three persons in the Godhead ; the Father, the Son, and the Holy Ghost ; and these three are one God, the same in substance, equal in power and glory.
Page 304 - WE believe that it is the privilege of all believers to be " wholly sanctified " and that " their whole spirit and soul and body " may be " preserved blameless unto the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ
Page 63 - 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 against the macrocosm and to set man to subdue nature to his higher ends...
Page 9 - Then went Haman forth that day joyful and with a glad heart: but when Haman saw Mordecai in the king's gate, that he stood not up, nor moved for him, he was full of indignation against Mordecai.