The following proposition seems to me in a high degree probable — namely, that any animal whatever, endowed with well-marked social instincts, would inevitably acquire a moral sense or conscience as soon as its intellectual powers had become as well... Boston Monday Lectures: Heredity - Page 129by Joseph Cook - 1879Full view - About this book
| 1871 - 630 pages
...natural history : — ' The following proposition seems to me in a high degree probable — namely, that any animal whatever, endowed with well-marked...developed, or nearly as well developed, as in man. For, firstly, the social instincts lead an animal to take pleasure in the society of its fellows, to... | |
| New Church gen. confer - 1871 - 644 pages
...fellows, as well as enabling him to think concerning these instincts. Hence Mr. Darwin says :— " Any animal whatever, endowed with well-marked social...developed, or nearly as well developed, as in man." The argument is peculiar: — "As soon as the mental faculties had become highly developed, images... | |
| 1871 - 1202 pages
...all." Mr. Darwin thinks that " any animal whatever, endowed with well-marked social instincts, wonld inevitably acquire a moral sense or conscience as...developed, or nearly as well developed, as in man." * In enunciating this dictum our author pretty well contradicts himself; for he says, that such a creature... | |
| 1871 - 608 pages
...Mr. Darwin's practice of begging the question at issue, we may quote the following assertion : — ' Any animal whatever, endowed with well-marked social...developed, or nearly as well developed, as in man' (vol. ip 71). This is "either a monstrous assumption or a mere truism ; it is a truism, for of course,... | |
| 1871 - 808 pages
...human race. '' The following proposition," he says, " seems to me in a high degree probable — namely, that any animal whatever, endowed with well-marked...developed, or nearly as well developed, as in man." For, firstly, the social instincts lead an animal to take pleasure in the society of its fellows, to... | |
| 1871 - 860 pages
...Darwin's practice of begging the question at issue, •we may quote the following assertion : — '• Any animal whatever, endowed with •well-marked social...developed, or nearly as well developed, as in man " (vol. ip 71). This is either a monstrous assumption or a mere truism; it is a truism, for of course,... | |
| 1871 - 528 pages
...human race. " The following proposition," he says, " seems to me in a high degree probable — namely, that any animal whatever, endowed with well-marked...developed, or nearly as well developed, as in man." For, firstly, the social instincts lead an animal to take pleasure in the society of its fellows, to... | |
| 1871 - 612 pages
...Mr. Darwin's practice of begging the question at issue, we may quote the following assertion : — ' Any animal whatever, endowed with well-marked social...developed, or nearly as well developed, as in man' (vol. ip 71). This is either a monstrous assumption or a mere truism ; it is a truism, for of course,... | |
| 1871 - 650 pages
...Mr. Darwin's practice of begging the question at issue, we may quote the following assertion : — ' Any animal whatever, endowed with wellmarked social...developed, or nearly as well developed, as in man' (vol. ip 71). This is either a monstrous assumption or a mere truism ; it is a truism, for of course,... | |
| Charles Darwin - 1871 - 468 pages
...individual during his lifetime. On the general theory of evolution this is at least extremely improbable. its intellectual powers had become as well developed, or nearly as well developed, as in man. For, firstly, the social instincts lead an animal to take pleasure in the society of its fellows, to... | |
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