 | Herbert Spencer - Economics - 1851 - 492 pages
...that humanity must in the end become completely - adapted to its conditions — unquestionable also. Progress, therefore, is not an accident, but a necessity....Instead of civilization being artificial, it is a purt of nature ; all '/-of a piece with the development of the embryo or the unfolding of a flower.... | |
 | Herbert Spencer - 1877 - 548 pages
...completely adapted to its conditions — unquestion able also. Progress, therefore, is not an accident, Lut a necessity. Instead of civilization being artificial,...a piece with the development of the embryo or the ur.folding of a flower. The modifications mankind have undergone, and are still undergoing, result... | |
 | 1878 - 588 pages
...but a growth ; and that civilization, therefore, is not an artificial thing, but a part of Nature — of a piece with the development of the embryo, or the unfolding of a flower. Manufacturing morals, we are told, is as unscientific as manufacturing worlds ; while social progress... | |
 | George Lacy - Economics - 1888 - 388 pages
...this, " Social Statics," p. 65. " Progress is not an accident but a necessity. Instead of civilisation being artificial, it is a part of nature, all of a...development of the embryo or the unfolding of a flower.'' After this it is altogether impossible to understand how Mr. Spencer can pretend to believe that the... | |
 | George Lacy - Economics - 1888 - 386 pages
...this, " Social Statics," p. 65. " Progress is not an accident but a necessity. Instead of civilisation being artificial, it is a part of nature, all of a piece with the development of the embryo or tha unfolding of a flower." After this it is altogether impossible to understand how Mr. Spencer can... | |
 | George Washington Julian - United States - 1889 - 340 pages
...but a growth : and that civilization, therefore, is not an artificial thing, but a part of Nature — of a piece with the development of the embryo, or the unfolding of a flower. Manufacturing morals, we are told, is as unscientific as manufacturing worlds ; while social progress... | |
 | Herbert Spencer - Politics, Practical - 1892 - 452 pages
...that, in virtue of this process, man will eventually become completely suited to his mode of life. Progress, therefore, is not an accident, but a necessity....artificial it is a part of nature ; all of a piece with the devolopment of an embryo or the unfolding of a flower. The modifications mankind have undergone, and... | |
 | Frank Bergen - United States - 1898 - 60 pages
...taken all knowledge for his province, and has succeeded better than Bacon, tells us that " Progress is not an accident, but a necessity. Instead of civilization...of nature ; all of a piece with the development of an embryo or the unfolding of a flower." And the late Professor Huxley, whose profound learning seemed... | |
 | James Pendleton Lichtenberger - Sociology - 1923 - 504 pages
...of life. "Progress, therefore, is not an accident, but a necessity. Instead " Social Stalics, p. 28. of civilization being artificial it is a part of nature; all of a piece with the development of an embyro or the unfolding of a flower. The modifications mankind have undergone, and are still undergoing,... | |
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Progress, therefore, is not an accident, but a necessity. Instead of civilization being artificial it is a part of nature; all of a piece with the development of an embryo or the unfolding of a flower. 
