...assumes, no moral tendency or purpose or effect are predicable of the cosmic energy ; on the contrary, " the ethical progress of society depends, not on imitating the cosmic process, still less in running away from it, but in combating it." The relation of man to Nature is one of insoluble...

...man is inconsistent •with the first principle of ethics ; what becomes of this surprising theory? Let us understand once for all that the ethical progress...depends, not on imitating the cosmic process, still less on running away from it. but in combating it. ... But if we may permit ourselves a larger hope...

..."The cosmos works through the lower nature of man, not for righteousness, but against it." And again, "The ethical progress of society depends, not on imitating the cosmic process, still less in running away from it, but in combating it." Doubtless much harm has been done to sound science...

...examination of the- presence or lack of evolutionary ideas in several ancient systems of ethics, " that the ethical progress of society depends not on imitating the cosmic process, still less in running away from it, but in combating it." The lecture is, of course, a solid one, but it...

...brief examination of the presence or lack of evolutionary ideas in several ancient systems of ethics, " that the ethical progress of society depends not on imitating the cosmic process, still less in running away from it, but in combating it." The lecture is, of course, a solid one, but it...

...this, where nature ends", and anticipates Huxley's famous judgment in Evolution and Ethics (1893): "Let us understand, once for all, that the ethical...depends, not on imitating the cosmic process, still less in running away from it, but in combatting it". Or, as paraphrased by a modern scientist: "The...

...fanatical individualism of our time attempts to apply the analogy of cosmic nature to society. . . . Let us understand, once for all, that the ethical...depends, not on imitating the cosmic process, still less in running away from it, but in combating it." These are certainly significant utterances. Not...

...man is inconsistent with the first principles of ethics ; what becomes of this surprising theory ? Let us understand, once for all, that the ethical...depends, not on imitating the cosmic process, still less in running away from it, but in combating it. It may seem an audacious proposal thus to pit the...

...Address of Dr. Munro, FRSE, to the Anthropological Sectioo of the British Association in 1893. § " Let us understand once for all that the ethical progress...depends not on imitating the cosmic process, still less in running away from it, but in combatio; it." — Huxley : " Evolution and Ethics," p. 34. pretation...

...in these quotations. He does not recommend quietism, but proposes that we should fight the cosmos : "Let us understand, once for all, that the ethical...depends, not on imitating the cosmic process, still less in running away from it, but in combating it." The risk of combating the cosmic process is great,...