 The following proposition seems to me in a high degree probable — namely, that any animal whatever, endowed with well-marked social instincts, the parental and filial affections being here included, would inevitably acquire a moral sense or conscience,...  Littell's Living Age - Page 911871Full view - About this book
 | Henry Wilkes Wright - 1913 - 460 lehte
...endowed with well-marked social instincts, the parental and filial affections being here included, would inevitably acquire a moral sense or conscience...as its intellectual •powers had become as well, or nearly as well, developed as in man. ' ' 9 Those practices and beliefs which originate in this instinct... | |
 | George William Nasmyth - 1916 - 458 lehte
...whatever, endowed with wellmarked social instincts, the parental and filial affections being here included, would inevitably acquire a moral sense or conscience,...soon as its intellectual powers had become as well, or nearly as well, developed as in man. For, firstly, the social instincts lead an animal to take pleasure... | |
 | Herbert H. Mott - 1916 - 168 lehte
...that it seems to him in a high degree probable "that any animal whatever, endowed with well marked social instincts, would inevitably acquire a moral sense or conscience, as soon as the intellectual powers had become as well developed, or nearly as well developed, as in man." It is... | |
 | Mossie May Waddington - 1919 - 216 lehte
...morality from these. " The following proposition seems to me in a high degree probable — namely, that any animal whatever, endowed with well-marked social...developed, or nearly as well developed, as in man." (1st edit., Vol. I, pp. 71, 72.) Darwin accounts for the more or less settled character of moral standards... | |
 | 1925 - 708 lehte
...whatever endowed with well-marked social instincts, parental and filial affections being here included, would inevitably acquire a moral sense or conscience, as soon as its intellect had become as well developed as in man " (pp. 149-150). See the whole of his chapter on "The... | |
 | George Seibel - 1924 - 90 lehte
...whatever, endowed with wellmarked social instincts, the parental and filial affections being here included, would inevitably acquire a moral sense or conscience,...soon as its intellectual powers had become as well, or nearly as well, developed as in man "? It would be no difficult matter to prove, from the Sonnets,... | |
 | George Barton Cutten - 1925 - 236 lehte
...this subject. He said, "The following proposition seems to be in a high degree probable; namely, that any animal whatever, endowed with well-marked social...inevitably acquire a moral sense or conscience as soon as the intellectual powers had become as well developed, or nearly as well developed, as in man." His... | |
 | 1915 - 756 lehte
...animal whatever endowed with well-marked social instincts, the parental and filial being here included, would inevitably acquire a moral sense or conscience...soon as its intellectual powers had become as well, or nearly as well, developed as in man. In other words, given man's individual endowments and his social... | |
 | Dov Ospovat - 1995 - 324 lehte
...endowed with well-marked social instincts, the parental and filial affections being here included, would inevitably acquire a moral sense or conscience,...soon as its intellectual powers had become as well, or nearly as well developed, as in man."55 Here, as in other passages quoted above, Darwin uses the... | |
 | Charles Darwin - 1981 - 964 lehte
...individual during his lifetime. On the general theory of evolution this is at least extremely improbable. its intellectual powers had become as well developed, or nearly as well developed, as in man. For, firstly, the social instincts lead an animal to take pleasure in the society of its fellows, to... | |
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