 | 1880 - 1118 lehte
...for pleasure, the avoidance of pain, or the fear of punishment. Commenting on Mr. Mivart's expression that there is " no trace in brutes of any actions...by the hope of pleasure, or by personal affection/' Mr. Huxley says that " it may be affirmed with equal truth that there is no trace in men of any actions... | |
 | St. George Jackson Mivart - 1871 - 372 lehte
...seen that Mr. Darwin himself speculates on the subject as regards the highest apes. It may safely be affirmed, however, that there is no trace in brutes...by the hope of pleasure, or by personal affection. No sign of moral reprobation is given by any brute, and yet had such existed in germ through Darwinian... | |
 | St. George Jackson Mivart - 1871 - 412 lehte
...seen that Mr. Darwin himself speculates on the subject as regards the highest apes. It may safely be affirmed, however, that there is no trace in brutes...the fear of punishment, by the hope of pleasure, or hy personal affection. No sign of moral reprobation is given by any brute, and yet had such existed... | |
 | St. George Jackson Mivart - 1871 - 338 lehte
...be affirmed, however, that there is no trace in brutes of any action simulating morality which arc not explicable by the fear of punishment, by the hope of pleasure, or by personal affection. No sign of moral reprobation is given by any brute, and yet had such existed in germ through Darwinian... | |
 | Thomas Henry Huxley - 1873 - 428 lehte
...and repudiated, should, under no circumstances, have been thus confidently assumed to be true. For myself, I utterly reject it, inasmuch as the logical...pleasure, or by personal affection" (p. 221). But it maybe affirmed, with equal truth, that there is no trace in men of any actions which are not traceable... | |
 | Thomas Henry Huxley - 1873 - 342 lehte
...nothing so terrible in store for the human race. But, if an action, the motive of which is nothing out affection or sympathy, may be deserving of moral approbation...are not traceable to the same motives. If a man does anything, he does it either because he fears to be punished if he does not do it, or because he hopes... | |
 | Herbert William Morris - 1876 - 736 lehte
...may safely be affirmed," says St. George Mivart, " that there is no trace in any brutes of any action simulating morality which are not explicable by the...by the hope of pleasure, or by personal affection. No sign of moral reprobation is given by any brute ; and yet had such existed in germ through Darwinian... | |
 | 1880 - 798 lehte
...for pleasure, the avoidance of pain, or the fear of punishment. Commenting on Mr. Mivart's expression that there is "no trace in brutes of any actions simulating...by the hope of pleasure, or by personal affection," Mr. Huxley says that " it may be affirmed with equal truth that there is no trace in men of any actions... | |
 | 1883 - 402 lehte
...asserts: "There is no trace in brutes of any action simulating morality which is not explicable by fear of punishment, by the hope of pleasure, or by personal affection." Those evolutionists who pursue their theory to the extent of developing man's higher faculties from... | |
 | Joseph Smith Van Dyke - 1886 - 494 lehte
...asserts: " There is no trace in brutes of any action simulating morality which is not explicable by fear of punishment, by the hope of pleasure, or by personal affection." * Those evolutionists who pursue their theory to the extent of developing man's higher faculties from... | |
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... of an arithmetician to the calculating boy, because he did not know how he worked his sums. If mankind ever generally accept and act upon Mr. Mivart's axiom, they will simply become a set of most unendurable prigs ; but they never have accepted it,... 
