...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...in running away from it, but in combating it." The relation of man to Nature is one of insoluble dualism and eternal antagonism. His only hope of individual...

...for it of another, which may he called the ethical process. It depends (he tells us on the next page) not on imitating the cosmic process, still less in running away from it, but in combating it. It is yet further said : * The history of civilization details the steps by which men have succeeded...

...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 of abatement...

..."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...less in running away from it, but in combating it." Doubtless much harm has been done to sound science by illadvised attempts to derive all higher social...

...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...in running away from it, but in combating it." The lecture is, of course, a solid one, but it is eminently readable also. Tasks by Twilight. By Abbot...

...examination of the- presence or lack of evolutionary ideas in several ancient systems of ethics, " that the ethical progress of society depends not on...in running away from it, but in combating it." The lecture is, of course, a solid one, but it is eminently readable also. Tasks by Twilight. By Abbot...

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

...fanatical individualism of our time attempts to apply the analogy of cosmic nature to society. . . . Let us understand, once for all, that the ethical...less in running away from it, but in combating it." These are certainly significant utterances. Not that there is any essential modification of views previously...

...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...in running away from it, but in combating it." The risk of combating the cosmic process is great, but Professor Huxley relies on man's intelligence. He...

...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...process, still less in running away from it, but in combatio; it." — Huxley : " Evolution and Ethics," p. 34. pretation put upon it by later philosophers...