 The practice of that which is ethically best — what we call goodness or virtue — involves a course of conduct which, in all respects, is opposed to that which leads to success in the cosmic struggle for existence.  Littell's Living Age - Page 6281896Full view - About this book
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray IV, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - 1896 - 616 pages
...witness the late Professor Huxley, where in his Romanes Lecture he affirms that ' the practice of what wo call goodness or virtue involves a course of conduct...shall not merely respect, but shall help his fellows ; ita influence is directed, not so much to the survival of the fittest, as to the fitting of as many... | |
 | 1899 - 336 pages
...world. These are respectively the ithical and the cosmic. The practice of that which is ethically best involves a course of conduct which in all respects...self-restraint; in place of thrusting aside or treading down all competition, it requires that the individual shall not merely respect, but shall help his fellows ;... | |
 | 1894 - 900 pages
...who are ethically the best. As I have already urged, the practice of that which is ethically best — what we call goodness or virtue — involves a course of conduct which, in att [the Italics are mine] respects, is opposed to that which leads to success in the cosmic struggle... | |
 | 1912 - 352 pages
...is opposed to the ethical, so that that which is ethically best involves a course of conduct which is opposed to that which leads to success in the cosmic struggle for existence. However, we must remember that this " murdering and being murdered," the soul unfolding itself " through... | |
 | 1893 - 1068 pages
...the lecturer makes the following statement 15 : — The practice of that which is ethically best — what we call goodness or virtue — • involves a...individual shall not merely respect but shall help bis fellows ; its influence is directed, not so much to the survival of the fittest, as to the fitting... | |
 | 1893 - 416 pages
...which is ethically best, what we call goodness or virtue, involves a course of conduct in all respects opposed to that which leads to success in the cosmic struggle for existence. It is a primary objection, however, to a view like this, that the highest perfections of which man... | |
 | Emanuel Vogel Gerhart - 1894 - 986 pages
...at every step, and the substitution for it of another which may be called the ethical process. * * The practice of what we call goodness or virtue involves...to success in the cosmic struggle for existence." cosmic nature must, it appears, be equally beneficent in the ethical sphere. Yet, if that which I have... | |
 | Pramatha Nath Bose - 1894 - 296 pages
...Edition, London, p. 189). As Huxley has well put it. — "The practice of that which is ethically best, what we call goodness or virtue, involves a course...success in the cosmic struggle for existence. In place usually records and emblazons deeds which it were better for humanity to forget, and holds up as heroes... | |
 | Pramatha Nath Bose - 1894 - 298 pages
...Edition, London, p. 189). As Huxley has well put it.—"The practice of that which is ethically best, what we call goodness or virtue, involves a course...success in the cosmic struggle for existence. In place INTRODUCTION. usually records and emblazons deeds which it were better for humanity to forget, and... | |
 | Free Religious Association (Boston, Mass.). Meeting - 1894 - 906 pages
...another form. Prof. Huxley teaches in this lecture that " the practice of that which is ethically best, what we call goodness or virtue, involves a course...to success in the cosmic struggle for existence." " The ethical progress of society depends, not on imitating the cosmic process, still less in running... | |
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