 After finding that from it are deducible the various characteristics of Evolution, we finally draw from it a warrant for the belief, that Evolution can end only in the establishment of the greatest perfection and the most complete happiness* CHAPTER SUMMARY...  First Principles - Page 486by Herbert Spencer - 1862 - 503 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Herbert Spencer - 1864 - 538 pages
...equilibria that have been disturbed. By this ultimate principle is proveable the tendency of evenorganism, disordered by some unusual influence, to return to...perfection and the most complete happiness* CHAPTER SUMMARY AND CONCLUSION. § 138. IN the chapter on " Laws in general," after delineating the progress... | |
 | Herbert Spencer - 1865 - 528 pages
...it afford a basis for the inference, t L.tt. there is a gradual advance towards harmony between mi mental nature and the conditions of his existence....CONCLUSION. 138. IN the chapter on "Laws in general," after deineating the progress of mankind in recognizing uniformities of relation among surrounding phenomena... | |
 | Herbert Spencer - 1870 - 600 pages
...the conditions of his existence. After finding that from it are deducible the various characteristies of Evolution, we finally draw from it a warrant for...belief, that Evolution can end only in the establishment ol the greatest perfection and the most complete happLncsa. CHAPTER XXIII. DISSOLUTION. § 177. When,... | |
 | Herbert Spencer - 1872 - 602 pages
...the conditions of his existence. After finding that from it are deducible the various characteristies of Evolution, we finally draw from it a warrant for...belief, that Evolution can end only in the establishment ol the greatest perfection and the most complete happiness. CHAPTER XXIII. DISSOLUTION. § 177. When,... | |
 | Herbert Spencer - 1873 - 602 pages
...the conditions of his existence. After finding that from it are deducible the various characteristies of Evolution, we finally draw from it a warrant for...perfection and the most complete happiness. CHAPTER XX1IL DISSOLUTION. § 177. When, in Chapter XII., we glanced at the cycle of changes through which... | |
 | William Icrin Gill - 1875 - 320 pages
...would be a state of universal death, of petrifaction and eternal darkness and frost. Spencer has no warrant for the belief that evolution " can end only...greatest perfection and the most complete happiness;" because it cannot " end," and its end, if that were possible, would be the end of sentient existence.... | |
 | Charles John Ellicott - 1880 - 180 pages
...the period within which the existence of the earth is 19 " Evolution," says Mr. Herbert Spencer, " can end only in the establishment of the greatest perfection, and the most complete happiness." " First Principles," chap. xxii. p. 51 7. The scriptural idea is emphatically in antithesis. Summing... | |
 | 1881 - 476 pages
...refinement ; this refinement produces advancement, and all true advancement is evolution of progress. Evolution can end only in the establishment of the greatest perfection and most complete happiness. . VIRTUE IS THE SUBORDINATION OF PASSION TO THE INTELLECT. The misguided and... | |
 | John Stahl Patterson - 1883 - 526 pages
...(first Am. ed., p. 486; second ed., p. 5 1 7), speaking of the persistence of force, the author says: "After finding that from it are deducible the various...greatest perfection, and the most complete happiness." In justice to Mr. Spencer it must be observed that in the new edition of his Psychology (New York,... | |
 | William Woods Smyth - 1883 - 76 pages
...internal forces we know as feelings are in equilibrium with the external forces they encounter."* And " Evolution can end only in the establishment of the...greatest perfection and the most complete happiness."* Ou the other hand we have just seen that this is impossible. Mr. Spencer incidentally admits this much... | |
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