 | 1895 - 902 psl.
...assumes, no moral tendency or purpose or effect are predicable of the cosmic energy ; on the contrary, " the ethical progress of society depends, not on imitating the cosmic process, still less in running away from it, but in combating it." The relation of man to Nature is one of insoluble dualism... | |
 | 1914 - 568 psl.
..."The cosmos works through the lower nature of man, not for righteousness, but against it." And again, "The ethical progress of society depends, not on imitating the cosmic process, still less in running away from it, but in combating it." Doubtless much harm has been done to sound science by... | |
 | Albert Shaw - 1893 - 898 psl.
...examination of the- presence or lack of evolutionary ideas in several ancient systems of ethics, " that the ethical progress of society depends not on imitating the cosmic process, still less in running away from it, but in combating it." The lecture is, of course, a solid one, but it is eminently... | |
 | Albert Shaw - 1893 - 838 psl.
...brief examination of the presence or lack of evolutionary ideas in several ancient systems of ethics, " that the ethical progress of society depends not on imitating the cosmic process, still less in running away from it, but in combating it." The lecture is, of course, a solid one, but it is eminently... | |
 | 1928 - 556 psl.
...this, where nature ends", and anticipates Huxley's famous judgment in Evolution and Ethics (1893): "Let us understand, once for all, that the ethical...depends, not on imitating the cosmic process, still less in running away from it, but in combatting it". Or, as paraphrased by a modern scientist: "The conquest... | |
 | 1893 - 804 psl.
...fanatical individualism of our time attempts to apply the analogy of cosmic nature to society. . . . Let us understand, once for all, that the ethical...depends, not on imitating the cosmic process, still less in running away from it, but in combating it." These are certainly significant utterances. Not that... | |
 | 1894 - 896 psl.
...of relation to moral ends ; if the imitation of it by man is inconsistent with the first principles of ethics ; what becomes of this surprising theory...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... | |
 | Thomas Henry Huxley - 1894 - 380 psl.
...to moral ends ; if the imitation of it by man is inconsistent with the first principles ofe|lncs ; what becomes of this surprising theory ? Let us understand,...society depends, not on imitating the cosmic process, stflTless in running away from it,\ but in'combating it. It may seem an audacious ) proposal thus to... | |
 | 1894 - 952 psl.
...Address of Dr. Munro, FRSE, to the Anthropological Sectioo of the British Association in 1893. § " Let us understand once for all that the ethical progress...depends not on imitating the cosmic process, still less in running away from it, but in combatio; it." — Huxley : " Evolution and Ethics," p. 34. pretation... | |
 | Paul Carus - 1894 - 698 psl.
...in these quotations. He does not recommend quietism, but proposes that we should fight the cosmos : "Let us understand, once for all, that the ethical...depends, not on imitating the cosmic process, still less in running away from it, but in combating it." The risk of combating the cosmic process is great, but... | |
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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. 
