 | 1871 - 630 lehte
...natural product of the modified faculties of brutes, most earnest-minded men will be compelled to gite up those motives by which they have attempted to live noble and virtuous lives, as founded on a mistake ; our moral sense will turn out to be a mere developed instinct, identical... | |
 | Charles Robert Bree - 1872 - 518 lehte
...overestimate the magnitude of the issue. If our humanity be merely the natural product of the modified faculties of brutes, most earnest minded men will...they have attempted to live noble and virtuous lives, as founded on a mistake ; our moral sense will turn out to be a mere developed instinct, identical... | |
 | Charles William Grant (col.) - 1872 - 98 lehte
...product of the modified faculties of brutes, most earnest-minded men will be compelled to give up the motives by which they have attempted to live noble and virtuous lives as founded on a mistake ; our moral sense will turn out to be a mere developed instinct, identical... | |
 | George St. Clair - 1873 - 280 lehte
...our humanity be merely the natural product of the modified faculties of brutes, most earnest-minded men will be compelled to give up those motives by...they have attempted to live noble and virtuous lives, as founded on a mistake."2 On the contrary, whatever the temporary effect, and the effect on minds... | |
 | 1885 - 70 lehte
...product of the modified faculties of brutes, most earnest-minded men will be compelled to give up the motives by which they have attempted to live noble and virtuous lives as founded on a mistake ; our moral sense will turn out to be a mere developed instinct, identical... | |
 | Petronella Jacoba de Lange - 1925 - 214 lehte
..."our humanity be merely the natural product of the modified faculties of brutes, most earnestminded men will be compelled to give up those motives by...they have attempted to live noble and virtuous lives, as founded on a mistake; our moral sense will turn out to be a mere developed instinct, identical in... | |
 | Adrian Desmond - 1984 - 288 lehte
...that "most earnest-minded men", on learning that morals were the better part of brute instinct, would "be compelled to give up those motives by which they...have attempted to live noble and virtuous lives". 16 With Paris aflame in 1871, Dawkins was not unduly paranoid in seeing a social threat and destabilising... | |
 | Robert J. Richards - 1987 - 719 lehte
...our humanity be merely the natural product of the modified faculties of brutes, most earnest-minded men will be compelled to give up those motives by...they have attempted to live noble and virtuous lives, as founded on a mistake. . . . If these views be true, a revolution in thought is imminent, which will... | |
 | Alvar Ellegård - 1990 - 400 lehte
...humanity be merely the natural product of the modified faculties of the brutes, most earnest-minded men will be compelled to give up those motives by...they have attempted to live noble and virtuous lives, as founded on a mistake . . . our moral sense will turn out to be a mere developed instinct . . . and... | |
 | Adrian J. Desmond, James Richard Moore - 1994 - 910 lehte
...denied that man's 'spiritual powers' were selected from brute instincts, otherwise 'earnest-minded men will be compelled to give up those motives by...have attempted to live noble and virtuous lives.' Inured to monkey-men and materialism by Huxley and Tyndall, informed by Galton, Greg, and Bagehot about... | |
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If our humanity be merely the natural product of the modified faculties of the brutes, most earnest-minded men will be compelled to give up those motives by which they have attempted to live noble and virtuous lives... 
