 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.  The Atlantic Monthly - Сторінка 7111904Повний перегляд - Докладніше про цю книгу
 | Thomas Henry Huxley - 1894 - 380 стор.
...ethically the best.20 As I have already urged, the practice of that which is ethically best — what we call goodness or virtue — involves a course of conduct which, in all VOL. IX G respects, is opposed to that which leads to success in the cosmic struggle for existence.... | |
 | Brooklyn Ethical Association - 1895 - 440 стор.
...Nature, and adds : "As I have already urged, the practice of that which is ethically best — what we call goodness or virtue — involves a course of conduct...leads to success in the cosmic struggle for existence. Its influence is directed, not so much to the survival of the fittest, as to the fitting of as many... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray IV, John Murray, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero - 1896 - 632 стор.
...witness the late Professor Huxley, where in his Romanes Lecture he affirms that ' the practice of what we call goodness or virtue involves a course of conduct...shall not merely respect, but shall help his fellows ; iU influence is directed, not so much to the survival of the fittest, as to the fitting of as many... | |
 | George Park Fisher - 1896 - 630 стор.
...with the " cosmic process." " The practice of what is ethically best," we are assured, — what we call goodness or virtue, — "involves a course of...to success in the cosmic struggle for existence." "The ethical progress of society depends, not on imitating the cosmic process, still less in running... | |
 | Jabez Thomas Sunderland, Brooke Herford, Frederick B. Mott - 1896 - 604 стор.
...of view. "As I have already urged," he said, "the practice of that which is ethically best, what we call goodness or virtue, involves a course of conduct...to success in the cosmic struggle for existence." If there is really antagonism between the evolutionary processes of the cosmos and human progress,... | |
 | 1915 - 720 стор.
...survive. "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 natural struggle for existence. In place of ruthless self-assertion it demands self-restraint; in place... | |
 | Andrew Seth Pringle-Pattison - 1897 - 362 стор.
...explaining morality that the practice of what is ethically best—what we call goodness or virtue—involves a course of conduct which, in all respects, is opposed...shall not merely respect, but shall help, his fellows. ... It repudiates the gladiatorial theory of existence. . . . Laws and moral precepts are directed... | |
 | Ernest Newman - 1897 - 340 стор.
...Ethics, ii., 6. illogical assertion that " the practice of that which is ethically best — what we call goodness or virtue — involves a course of conduct...ruthless self-assertion it demands self-restraint," etc.1 — even this is refuted by his own previous argument that a pack of wolves could not exist for... | |
 | William Jay Youmans - 1898 - 902 стор.
...reviewer. In the lecture Prof. Huxley says: — " The practice of that which is ethically best — what we call goodness or virtue — involves a course of conduct...ruthless self-assertion it demands selfrestraint." — P. 33. But in note 19 he admits that — "strictly speaking [why not rightly speaking?], social... | |
 | Paul Carus - 1898 - 754 стор.
...but of those who are ethically the best. The practice of that which is ethically best — which we call goodness or virtue — involves a course of conduct...leads to success in the cosmic struggle for existence. . . . The cosmic process has no sort of relation to moral ends. The imitation by man is inconsistent... | |
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