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advance advantage appears applied argu argument become beneficent better biological brain cause Charles Darwin civilisation competition complex conception consciousness constitution creed customs Darwinian Descent doctrine of heredity economic struggle EDWARD CARPENTER English equality essay ethics EVOLUTION THEORY evolutionist explain fact faculties favour fittest formulæ Galton German Grant Allen habits Herbert Spencer Hereditary Genius higher human society ideal ideas imitation inherited institutions intellectual J. S. Mill labour laissez faire Lamarckian language LAURENCE GRONLUND laws less lower animals mathematical means ment merely metaphysical military moral nation natural selection nobility objection opinion organic Origin of Species peerage phrase physical possible present primitive principle Prof Professor Huxley recognised reflection Reich religion Roman Roman law savage says scientific sense sexual selection social evolution Sparta speak species spiritual world State-action Strauss struggle for existence success suggested theory of natural tion tribe Wallace women
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Page 25 - The first men who substituted the state of mutual peace for that of mutual war, whatever the motive which impelled them to take that step, created society. But, in establishing peace, they obviously put a limit upon the struggle for existence.
Page 6 - Man, like every other animal, has no doubt advanced to his present high condition through a struggle for existence consequent on his rapid multiplication; and if he is to advance still higher, it is to be feared that he must remain subject to a severe struggle. Otherwise he would sink into indolence, and the more gifted men would not be more successful in the battle of life than the less gifted.
Page 7 - Important as the struggle for existence has been and even still is, yet as far as the highest part of man's nature is concerned there are other agencies more important. For the moral qualities are advanced, either directly or indirectly, much more through the effects of habit, the reasoning powers, instruction, religion, etc., than through natural selection; though to this latter agency may be safely attributed the social instincts, which afforded the basis for the development of the moral sense.
Page 98 - In proportion as these physical characteristics become of less importance, mental and moral qualities will have increasing influence on the well-being of the race. Capacity for acting in concert for protection, and for the acquisition of food and shelter ; sympathy, which leads all in turn to assist each other ; the sense of right, which checks depredations upon our fellows...
Page 20 - ... families, and especially among the less conspicuous officers of the army. Modern leading men in all paths of eminence, as may easily be seen in a collection of photographs, are of a coarser and more robust breed ; less excitable and dashing, but endowed with far more ruggedness and real vigor.
Page 24 - ... the course shaped by the ethical man — the member of society or citizen — necessarily runs counter to that which the nonethical man — the primitive savage, or man as a mere member of the animal kingdom — tends to adopt. The latter fights out the struggle for existence to the bitter end, like any other animal ; the former devotes his best energies to the object of setting limits to the struggle.