| Herbert Spencer - 1862 - 528 pages
...between man's mental nature and the conditions of his existence. After finding that from it are deducible the various characteristics of Evolution, we finally...greatest perfection and the most complete happiness. CHAPTER XVII. SUMMARY AND CONCLUSION, § 138. IN the chapter on " Laws in general," after delineating... | |
| Herbert Spencer - 1864 - 538 pages
...between man's mental nature and the conditions of his existence. After finding that from it are deducible the various characteristics of Evolution, we finally...greatest perfection and the most complete happiness* CHAPTER SUMMARY AND CONCLUSION. § 138. IN the chapter on " Laws in general," after delineating the... | |
| Herbert Spencer - 1870 - 600 pages
...the conditions of his existence. After finding that from it are deducible the various characteristies of Evolution, we finally draw from it a warrant for...belief, that Evolution can end only in the establishment ol the greatest perfection and the most complete happLncsa. CHAPTER XXIII. DISSOLUTION. § 177. When,... | |
| Herbert Spencer - 1872 - 602 pages
...the conditions of his existence. After finding that from it are deducible the various characteristies of Evolution, we finally draw from it a warrant for...belief, that Evolution can end only in the establishment ol the greatest perfection and the most complete happiness. CHAPTER XXIII. DISSOLUTION. § 177. When,... | |
| Herbert Spencer - 1873 - 602 pages
...the conditions of his existence. After finding that from it are deducible the various characteristies of Evolution, we finally draw from it a warrant for...greatest perfection and the most complete happiness. CHAPTER XX1IL DISSOLUTION. § 177. When, in Chapter XII., we glanced at the cycle of changes through... | |
| William Icrin Gill - 1875 - 320 pages
...would be a state of universal death, of petrifaction and eternal darkness and frost. Spencer has no warrant for the belief that evolution " can end only...greatest perfection and the most complete happiness;" because it cannot " end," and its end, if that were possible, would be the end of sentient existence.... | |
| Charles John Ellicott - 1880 - 180 pages
...the period within which the existence of the earth is 19 " Evolution," says Mr. Herbert Spencer, " can end only in the establishment of the greatest perfection, and the most complete happiness." " First Principles," chap. xxii. p. 51 7. The scriptural idea is emphatically in antithesis. Summing... | |
| 1881 - 476 pages
...refinement ; this refinement produces advancement, and all true advancement is evolution of progress. Evolution can end only in the establishment of the greatest perfection and most complete happiness. . VIRTUE IS THE SUBORDINATION OF PASSION TO THE INTELLECT. The misguided and... | |
| Herbert Spencer - 1882 - 652 pages
...the conditions of his existence. After finding that from it are deducible the various characteristies of Evolution, we finally draw from it a warrant for...belief, that Evolution can end only in the establishment ol the greatest perfection and the most complete happiness. CHAPTER XXIIL DISSOLUTION. § 177. When,... | |
| John Stahl Patterson - 1883 - 526 pages
...7), speaking of the persistence of force, the author says: "After finding that from it are deducible the various characteristics of evolution, we finally...greatest perfection, and the most complete happiness." In justice to Mr. Spencer it must be observed that in the new edition of his Psychology (New York,... | |
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