 | John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell - 1857 - 624 pages
...indirectly tend to heighten human happiness. And they are thought to constitute progress simply because they tend to heighten human happiness. But rightly...gradually fitted it for the habitation of Man, and as thercfore a geological progress, we must seek to determine the character common to these modifications... | |
 | Herbert Spencer - 1858 - 466 pages
...indirectly tend to heighten human happiness. And they are thought to constitute progress simply because they tend to heighten human happiness. But rightly...must seek to determine the character common to these modifications—the law to which they all conform. And similarly in every other case. Leaving out of... | |
 | Herbert Spencer - 1891 - 494 pages
...indirectly tend to heighten human happiness ; and they are thought to constitute progress simply because they tend to heighten human happiness. But rightly to understand progress, we must learn the nature of these changes, considered apart from our interests. Ceasing, for example, to regard... | |
 | Herbert Spencer - 1891 - 514 pages
...indirectly tend to heighten human happiness ; and they are thought to constitute progress simply because they tend to heighten human happiness. But rightly to understand progress, we must learn the nature of these changes, considered apart from our interests. Ceasing, for example, to regard... | |
 | William Jay Youmans - 1899 - 944 pages
...indirectly tend to heighten human happiness. And they are thought to constitute progress simply because they tend to heighten human happiness. But rightly...these changes, considered apart from our interests.* With the view of excluding these anthropocentric interpretations and also because it served better... | |
 | Herbert Spencer - 1914 - 286 pages
...indirectly tend to heighten human happiness. And they are thought to constitute progress simply because they tend to heighten human happiness. But rightly...these changes, considered apart from our interests." * * Westminster Review, April, 1857. With the view of excluding these anthropocentric interpretations... | |
 | Lester Frank Ward - 1906 - 428 pages
...indirectly tend to heighten human happiness. And they are thought to constitute progress simply because they tend to heighten human happiness. But rightly...these changes, considered apart from our interests. 1 « Westminster Review, Vol. LVII (NS, Vol. XI), April 1, 1857, pp. 445-446. He goes on to show that... | |
 | Oliver Joseph Thatcher - 1907 - 494 pages
...simply because they tend to heighten human happiness. But rightly to understand progress, we must learn the nature of these changes, considered apart from...fitted it for the habitation of man, and as therefore constituting geological progress, we must ascertain the character common to these modifications —... | |
 | Oliver Joseph Thatcher - 1907 - 482 pages
...indirectly tend to heighten human happiness; and they are thought to constitute progress simply because they tend to heighten human happiness. But rightly to understand progress, we must learn the nature of these changes, considered apart from our interests. Ceasing, for example, to regard... | |
 | Herbert Spencer - 1907 - 142 pages
...indirectly tend to heighten human happiness ; and they are thought to constitute progress simply because they tend to heighten human happiness. But rightly to understand progress, we must learn the nature of these changes, considered apart from our interests. Ceasing, for example, to regard... | |
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The current conception is a tcleological one. The phenomena are contemplated solely as bearing on human happiness. Only those changes are held to constitute progress which directly or indirectly tend to heighten human happiness. And they are thought to... 
