 | Herbert Spencer - 1862 - 528 pages
...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...greatest perfection and the most complete happiness. CHAPTER XVII. SUMMARY AND CONCLUSION, § 138. IN the chapter on " Laws in general," after delineating... | |
 | Herbert Spencer - 1864 - 538 pages
...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...greatest perfection and the most complete happiness* CHAPTER SUMMARY AND CONCLUSION. § 138. IN the chapter on " Laws in general," after delineating the... | |
 | William Icrin Gill - 1875 - 320 pages
...universal death, of petrifaction and eternal darkness and frost. Spencer has no warrant for the belief that evolution " can end only in the establishment...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
...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...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... | |
 | 1884 - 626 pages
...from it * [which appears to be equilibration] a warrant for the belief ' that evolution can only end in the establishment of the * greatest perfection and the most complete happiness '(p. 517). This indeed is glorious news, and the philosophy of persistent force is worth something... | |
 | 1885 - 612 pages
...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 iind the most complete happiness." Next month, in the final article on " First Principles," we shall... | |
 | Ernest Belfort Bax - 1886 - 460 pages
...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...greatest perfection and the most complete happiness." ('First Principles,' p. 517.) Lastly remains the question of dissolution. The equilibrium once attained,... | |
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Evolution can end only in the establishment of the greatest perfection and the most complete happiness. 
