...qualities are a reversal of all its ways. Man is at odds with the cosmos : it is ppen war between them. ' Let us understand, once for all, that the ethical...less in running away from it, but in combating it.' With this characteristic call to arms the deeply-felt address concludes.1 A similar sense of dualism,...

...that are most widely opposed to egoistic selfassertion. " Let us understand once for all," he says, " that the ethical progress of society depends not on...less in running away from it, but in combating it." He admits that this is " an audacious proposal " ; but he thinks that man's ends are higher than the...

..."justify" our ethical concepts. Mr. Huxley talked of the " ethical progress of society " depending " not on imitating the cosmic process, still less in running away from it, but in combating it," which is as childish a piece of verbal fallacy as could well be perpetrated. Mr. Balfour turns up the...

...history professes to tell the story •? •"The ethical progress of society," says Huxley, "depends, 4 not on imitating the cosmic process, still less in running away from it, but in combating it." And he holds that the " solid foundation " for the hope that we may do this constitutes the chief distinction...

...State of Nature prevails over the surface of our planet," Mr. Huxley held that our duty lay "not in imitating the cosmic process, still less in running away from it, but in combating it." l " Cosmic nature is no school of virtue, but the headquarters of the enemy of ethical nature," and...

...cosmic nature is no school of virtue, but the headquarters of the enemy of ethical nature ; " * and that the " ethical progress of society depends, not on imitating the cosmic process, . . . but in combating it." 2 However, though the difficulties of this problem are very great, it may...

...cosmic nature is no school of virtue, but the headquarters of the enemy of ethical nature ; " 1 and that the " ethical progress of society depends, not on imitating the cosmic process, . . . but in combating it." 2 However, though the difficulties of this problem are very great, it may...

...opposition to the state of nature; to substitute as far as possible social progress for cosmic evolution. He says:— Let us understand, once for all, that the...less in running away from it, but in combating it. It may seem an audacious proposal thus to pit the microcosm against the macrocosm, and to set man to...

...hatchet " into the " natural " and " supernatural." He quotes Professor Huxley's Romanes Lecture, to show that the " ethical progress of society depends, not on imitating the cosmic process, . . . but in combating it." He consequently comes very near to Mr. Kidd in demanding a " super-rational...

...progress of society to-day, Professor Huxley concludes, " depends not on imitating the cosmic progress, still less in running away from it, but in combating it." The microcosm should pit itself against the macrocosm, and " social progress means a checking of the cosmic...