Life, Mind, and Spirit: Being the Second Course of the Gifford Lectures, Delivered in the University of St. Andrews in the Year 1923, Under the General Title of Emergent EvolutionWilliams and Norgate, 1926 - 316 من الصفحات |
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الصفحة 285 - Let us understand, once for all, that the ethical progress of society depends, not on imitating the cosmic process, still less in running away from it, but in combating it.
الصفحة 285 - Social progress means a checking of the cosmic process at every step and the substitution for it of another, which may be called the ethical process; the end of which is not the survival of those who may happen to be the fittest, in respect of the whole of the conditions which obtain, but of those who are ethically the best.
الصفحة 252 - In its widest possible sense, however, a man's Self is the sum total of all that he CAN call his, not only his body and his psychic powers, but his clothes and his house, his wife and children, his ancestors and friends, his reputation and works, his lands and horses, and yacht and bank-account.
الصفحة 210 - Upon examination, each instance reveals, more or less clearly, five logically distinct steps: (i) a felt difficulty; (ii) its location and definition; (iii) suggestion of possible solution; (iv) development by reasoning of the bearings of the suggestion; (v) further observation and experiment leading to its acceptance or rejection; that is, the conclusion of belief or disbelief.
الصفحة 67 - ... of any other. The next is that of the molecule, the smallest portion of a liquid or gas which has all the properties of the whole : and lastly, the crystal unit, the smallest portion of a crystal (really the simplest form of a solid substance) which has all the properties of the crystal. There are atoms of silicon and of oxygen : there is a molecule of silicon dioxide, and a crystal unit of quartz containing three molecules of silicon dioxide. The separate atoms of silicon and oxygen are not...
الصفحة 28 - But the order and connection of ideas is the same as the order and connection of causes (Prop.
الصفحة 67 - The simplest is that of the single atom, as in helium in the gaseous state, in which the behavior of every atom is on the whole the same as the behavior of any other. The next is that of the molecule, the smallest portion of a liquid or gas which has all the properties...
الصفحة 285 - Of course, strictly speaking, social life, and the ethical process in virtue of which it advances towards perfection, are part and parcel of the general process of evolution...
الصفحة 91 - If the metaphor be permissible, and we cannot get beyond metaphors yet, the germ-cell is the blind artist whose many inventions are expressed, embodied, and exercised in the developed organism, the seeing artist who, beholding the work of the germ-cell, either pronounces it, in the light of the success which it brings, to be good, or else, when it spells ruin, curses it effectively by sinking with it into extinction.
الصفحة 26 - I shall, therefore, treat of the nature and strength of the emotions according to the same method, as I employed heretofore in my investigations concerning God and the mind. I shall consider human actions and desires in exactly the same manner, as though I were concerned with lines, planes, and solids.