| 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
...it requires that the individual shall not merely respect, but shall help his fellows ; ita influence is directed, not so much to the survival of the fittest,...to the fitting of as many as possible to survive. It repudiates the gladiatorial theory of existence.' Now, returns Nietzsche, I do not deny that this... | |
| 1905 - 1004 pages
...it requires that the individual shall not merely respect, but shall help his fellows; its Influence Is directed, not so much to the survival of the fittest,...to the fitting of as many as possible to survive. It repudiates the gladiatorial theory of existence. • This declaration, from the lips of our most... | |
| Royal Society of Edinburgh - 1918 - 474 pages
...organic world. Modern civilisation is founded on the altruistic and moral inventions of mankind, and are directed not so much to the survival of the fittest...to the fitting of as many as possible to survive. Nature cuts off the weak, deformed, and stragglers in life's battle: war selects its victims from the... | |
| 1899 - 336 pages
...it requires that the individual shall not merely respect, but shall help his fellows ; its influence is directed not so much to the survival of the fittest,...to the fitting of as many as possible to survive." Thus Huxley, one of the most acute thinkers of the century, has placed sympathy on a scientific basis... | |
| 1897 - 1166 pages
...it requires that the individual shall not merely respect but shall help his fellows ; its influence is directed not so much to the survival of the fittest...to the fitting of as many as possible to survive. It repu diates the gladiatorial theory of existence. It demands that each man who enters into the enjoyment... | |
| 1894 - 900 pages
...it requires that the individual shall not merely respect but shall help his fellows ; its influence is directed, not so much to the survival of the fittest, as to the fitting as many as possible to survive. It repudiates the gladiatorial theory of existence. * Proceedings of... | |
| 1895 - 902 pages
...gives away his entire case against evolutionary ethics by the assertion that the practice of goodness is directed " not so much to the survival of the fittest as to fitting as many as possible to survive." But surely it can not be doubted that those " fitted to survive... | |
| American Association on Mental Deficiency - 1877 - 1178 pages
...philanthropy and altruism shine out in her work. Our work is directed not so much to " the. survival of tho fittest," as to the fitting of as many as possible to survive. And that is the spirit of the noble, army of teachers who have these defectives in charge. The teacher... | |
| 1893 - 804 pages
...it requires that the individual shall not merely respect, but shall help his fellows ; its influence is directed, not so much to the survival of the fittest,...to the fitting of as many as possible to survive. It repudiates the gladiatorial theory of existence. It demands that each man who enters into the enjoyment... | |
| 1893 - 942 pages
...apparently our duty to preserve those who would otherwise be unfit to live. Virtue, says Professor Huxley, is directed " not so much to the survival of the fittest,"...the " fitting of as many as possible to survive." I do not dispute the statement, I think it true in a sense ; but I have a difficulty as to its application.... | |
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