A Review of the Systems of Ethics: Founded on the Theory of EvolutionMacmillan, 1892 - 581 pages |
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... . These phenomena of the preparation of the human being for civilization and morality can be explained only on the supposition of a superior intelligence which has guided man's development in PART I 17 ALFRED RUSSEL WALLACE.
... . These phenomena of the preparation of the human being for civilization and morality can be explained only on the supposition of a superior intelligence which has guided man's development in PART I 17 ALFRED RUSSEL WALLACE.
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... phenomena of mind and those of brain is impassable . " To say that mind is a product or function of protoplasm , or of its molecular changes , is to use words to which we can attach no clear conception . You cannot have in the whole ...
... phenomena of mind and those of brain is impassable . " To say that mind is a product or function of protoplasm , or of its molecular changes , is to use words to which we can attach no clear conception . You cannot have in the whole ...
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... phenomena are not more and not less mechanical phenomena of life than the growth and bloom of the plants , than the propagation and sense - activity of animals , than the perception and thought - processes of human beings . " And both ...
... phenomena are not more and not less mechanical phenomena of life than the growth and bloom of the plants , than the propagation and sense - activity of animals , than the perception and thought - processes of human beings . " And both ...
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... phenomena are the result of mechanical causes causæ efficientes , not causæ finales . In an essay on the " Relation of the Theory of Evolution in its present form to Science in General " ( 1877 ) , he says of Ethics : " By far the most ...
... phenomena are the result of mechanical causes causæ efficientes , not causæ finales . In an essay on the " Relation of the Theory of Evolution in its present form to Science in General " ( 1877 ) , he says of Ethics : " By far the most ...
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... phenomena of life and derive therefrom the knowledge . which shall enable him to say whether such or such measures will conduce to the greatest happiness of the greatest number . If without knowledge of terrestrial phenomena and their ...
... phenomena of life and derive therefrom the knowledge . which shall enable him to say whether such or such measures will conduce to the greatest happiness of the greatest number . If without knowledge of terrestrial phenomena and their ...
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Page 522 - The Lord, The Lord God, merciful and gracious, longsuffering, and abundant in goodness and truth, keeping mercy for thousands, forgiving iniquity and transgression and sin, and that will by no means clear the guilty; visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children, and upon the children's children, unto the third and to the fourth generation.
Page 521 - Whosoever therefore shall break one of these least commandments and shall teach men so, he shall be called the least in the kingdom of heaven; but whosoever shall do and teach them, the same shall be called great in the kingdom of heaven.
Page 581 - Oh, may I join the choir invisible Of those immortal dead who live again In minds made better by their presence...
Page 521 - Think not that I am come to destroy the law, or the prophets: I am not come to destroy, but to fulfil. For verily I say unto you, Till heaven and earth pass, one jot or one tittle shall in 'no wise pass from the law, till all be fulfilled. Whosoever therefore shall break one of these least commandments, and shall teach men so, he shall be called the least in the kingdom of heaven : but whosoever shall do and teach them, the same shall lie called great in the kingdom of heaven.
Page 499 - I do distrust the poet who discerns No character or glory in his times, And trundles back his soul five hundred years, Past moat and drawbridge, into a castle-court, To sing — oh, not of lizard or of toad Alive i...
Page 3 - ... distinguished. If Mozart, instead of playing the pianoforte at three years old with wonderfully little practice, had played a tune with no practice at all, he might truly be said to have done so instinctively. But it would be a serious error to suppose that the greater number of instincts have been acquired by habit...
Page 4 - ... if it can be shown that instincts do vary ever so little, then I can see no difficulty in natural selection preserving and continually accumulating variations of instinct to any extent that was profitable. It is thus, as I believe, that all the most complex and wonderful instincts have originated.
Page 425 - God forbid. It would be a poor result of all our anguish and our wrestling, if we won nothing but our old selves at the end of it — if we could return to the same blind loves, the same self-confident blame, the same light thoughts of human suffering, the same frivolous gossip over blighted human lives, the same feeble sense of that Unknown towards which we have sent forth irrepressible cries in our loneliness.
Page 581 - This is life to come, Which martyred men have made more glorious For us who strive to follow. May I reach That purest heaven, be to other souls The cup of strength in some great agony, Enkindle generous ardor, feed pure love, Beget the smiles that have no cruelty, Be the sweet presence of a good diffused, And in diffusion ever more intense. So shall I join the choir invisible Whose music is the gladness of the world.
Page 9 - Consequently man would be influenced in the highest degree by the wishes, approbation, and blame of his fellow-men, as expressed by their gestures and language. Thus the social instincts, which must have been acquired by man in a very rude state, and probably even by his early ape-like progenitors, still give the impulse to some of his best actions...