 If, for instance, to take an extreme case, men were reared under precisely the same conditions as hive-bees, there can hardly be a doubt that our unmarried females would, like the worker-bees, think it a sacred duty to kill their brothers, and mothers...  The Descent of man - Page 70by Charles Darwin - 1871Full view - About this book
 | 1871 - 630 lehte
...says, under the same conditions as hive-bees, 'there can hardly be a doubt that our unmarried females ' would, like the worker-bees, think it a sacred duty...daughters ; and no one would think of interfering.' They would indeed so act from a strict sense of duty, comparable to that which leads us very frequently... | |
 | New Church gen. confer - 1871 - 644 lehte
...as hive-bees, there can scarcely be a doubt that our unmarried females would, like the worker bees, think it a sacred duty to kill their brothers, and...daughters, and no one would think of interfering." That is to say, the sole reason why fratricide and infanticide are regarded by man as abominable and... | |
 | Charles Bray - 1871 - 386 lehte
...precisely the same conditions as hive-bees, there can hardly be a doubt that our unmarried females would, like the worker-bees, think it a sacred duty...daughters, and no one would think of interfering."* In fact, that it would be possible to work this world for the greatest good of all on the principle... | |
 | Charles Bray - 1871 - 398 lehte
...precisely the same conditions as hive-bees, there can hardly be a doubt that our unmarried females would, like the worker-bees, think it a sacred duty...daughters, and no one would think of interfering."* In fact, that it would be possible to work this world for the greatest good of all on the principle... | |
 | John Francis Arundell Baron Arundell of Wardour - 1872 - 478 lehte
...precisely the same conditions as hive-bees, there can hardly be a doubt that our unmarried females would, like the worker-bees, think it a sacred duty...daughters, and no one would think of interfering." The Pall Mall continues — " If, from one point of view, this is apt to shock a timorous and unreflecting... | |
 | Charles William Grant (col.) - 1872 - 98 lehte
...precisely the same conditions as hive bees, there can hardly be a doubt that our unmarried females would, like the worker-bees, think it a sacred duty...daughters, and no one would think of interfering." — Descent of Man, vol. ip 73. On which the critic in the 'Times' of April 8th, 1871, very justly... | |
 | William Penman Lyon - 1872 - 178 lehte
...precisely the same conditions as hive-bees, there can hardly be a doubt that our unmarried females .would think it a sacred duty to kill their brothers, and...daughters ; and no one would think of interfering !" What is this but to tell us that there is no stable and unchanging rule of duty ; that our notions... | |
 | William Penman Lyon - 1872 - 202 lehte
...precisely the same conditions as hive-bees, there can hardly be a doubt that our unmarried females would think it a sacred duty to kill their brothers, and...daughters ; and no one would think of interfering !" What is this but to tell us that there is no stable and unchanging rule of duty ; that our notions... | |
 | Charles Robert Bree - 1872 - 518 lehte
...conditions as hive bees, there can hardly be a doubt that our unmarried females would, like the worker bees, think it a sacred duty to kill their brothers, and...daughters ; and no one would think of interfering.' (Vol. ip 73.) But why put an impossible case to illustrate his theory ? The next passage tells us why.... | |
 | Manthano (pseud.) - 1872 - 388 lehte
...as hive-bees, there can scarcely be a doubt that our unmarried females would like the worker bees, think it a sacred duty to kill their brothers, and...daughters, and no one would think of interfering." It is thus plain that morality would lose all elements of stable authority, and men would simply strike... | |
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