Social Progress and the Darwinian Theory: A Study of Force as a Factor in Human RelationsG.P. Putnam's Sons, 1916 - 417 psl. |
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Social Progress and the Darwinian Theory– A Study of Force as a Factor in ... George William Nasmyth Visos knygos peržiūra - 1916 |
Social Progress and the Darwinian Theory– A Study of Force as a Factor in ... George William Nasmyth Visos knygos peržiūra - 1916 |
Social Progress and the Darwinian Theory– A Study of Force as a Factor in ... George William Nasmyth Visos knygos peržiūra - 1916 |
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action advance aggression Alsace-Lorraine animals antagonism armament become belief biological cause cellules century chapter Charles Darwin civilization collective homicide common condition conquest Darwin's theory Darwinian theory defence Descent despotism distorted social Darwinism division of labour doctrine economic effect error established ethics Europe evolution fact factor follows futility of force Germany Herbert Spencer highest human race human society ideas immoral important increase individual injustice institutions intellectual revolution interests international anarchy J. A. Hobson justice living means ment militaristic military modern moral law mutual aid nations natural selection neighbour Norman Angell Novikov organization peace phenomena philosophy of force physical force political present primitive principle produce realize Renan result rôle Russian scientific slavery social Darwinists social instincts social progress sociology species Spencer struggle for existence take place theory of social tion tribe true truth universal vanquished victory vital circulation vital intensity welfare
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267 psl. - Social progress means a checking of the cosmic process at every step and the substitution for it of another, which may be called the ethical process; the end of which is not the survival of those who may happen to be the fittest, in respect of the whole of the conditions which obtain, but of those who are ethically the best.
13 psl. - Ye shall love peace as a means to new wars — and the short peace more than the long.
xiv psl. - Hitherto it is questionable if all the mechanical inventions yet made have lightened the day's toil of any human being. They have enabled a greater population to live the same life of drudgery and imprisonment, and an increased number of manufacturers and others to make fortunes.
33 psl. - From the point of view of the moralist the animal world is on about the same level as a gladiator's show. The creatures are fairly well treated, and set to fight — whereby the strongest, the swiftest and the cunningest live to fight another day. The spectator has no need to turn his thumbs down, as no quarter is given.
268 psl. - 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.
276 psl. - It must not be forgotten that although a high standard of morality gives but a slight or no advantage to each individual man and his children over the other men of the same tribe, yet that an advancement in the standard of morality and an increase in the number of well-endowed men will certainly give an immense advantage to one tribe over another.
13 psl. - I found, in brief, that all great nations learned their truth of word, and strength of thought, in war; that they were nourished in war, and wasted by peace; taught by war, and deceived by peace; trained by war, and betrayed by peace; — in a word, that they were born in war and expired in peace.
268 psl. - As l 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 respects, is opposed to that which leads to success in the cosmic struggle for existence.
282 psl. - A moral being is one who is capable of reflecting on his past actions and their motives — of approving of some and disapproving of others; and the fact that man is the one being who certainly deserves this designation, is the greatest of all distinctions between him and the lower animals.
47 psl. - I think it may be called the scientific view of a nation — is that of an organized whole, kept up to a high pitch of internal efficiency by insuring that its numbers are substantially recruited from the better stocks, and kept up to a high pitch of external efficiency by contest, chiefly by way of war with inferior races, and with equal races by the struggle for trade-routes and for the sources of raw material and of food supply. This is the natural history view of mankind, and I do not think you...