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" Social progress means a checking of the cosmic process at every step and the substitution for it of another, which may be called the ethical process; the end of which is not the survival of those who may happen to be the fittest, in respect of the whole... "
Myth, Ritual and Religion - Page 339
by Andrew Lang - 1899 - 719 pages
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The Popular Science Monthly, Volume 44

Science - 1894 - 900 pages
...Monthly, p. 21.] J See The Genesis of Species, p. 325. « [December Monthly, p. 189.] We read also : Social progress means a checking of the cosmic process...and the substitution for it of another, which may he called the ethical process. It depends (he tells us on the next page) not on imitating the cosmic...
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Education, Volume 15

Education - 1895 - 736 pages
...that championed by Mr. Drummond. Mr. Huxley, in a noted lecture, defines social progress thus : " It means a checking of the cosmic process at every step,...of another which may be called the ethical process, the end of which is not the survival of those who may happen to be the fittest in respect of the whole...
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Pennsylvania School Journal, Volume 42

Education - 1893 - 578 pages
...cosmic process upon the evolution of society, is the greater the more rudimentary its civilization. Social progress means a checking of the cosmic process...of another, which may be called the ethical process ; the end of which is not the survival of those who may happen to be the fittest, in respect of the...
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McClure's Magazine, Volume 3

Periodicals - 1894 - 576 pages
...the business of civilized man to find for his conduct a higher law. " Social progress," he says, " means a checking of the cosmic process at every step,...of another, which may be called the ethical process : the end of which is not the survival of those who may happen to be fittest, in respect of the whole...
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Institutes of the Christian Religion, Volume 2

Emanuel Vogel Gerhart - Reformed Church - 1894 - 986 pages
...neither increase nor diminish the force of the intuition that this is beautiful and that is ugly. * * Social progress means a checking of the cosmic process...of another which may be called the ethical process. * * The practice of what we call goodness or virtue involves a course of conduct which, in all respects,...
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Proceedings of the Birmingham Natural History and ..., Volumes 10-11

Natural history - 1897 - 422 pages
...natural man to follow his * " Nineteenth Century," February, 1888. non-moral course," and further, " Social progress means a checking of the cosmic process...another, which may be called the ethical process." That is to say, Huxley separated Nature into two portions. The earlier prehuman portion in which the...
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Evolution and Ethics and Other Essays

Thomas Henry Huxley - Capital - 1894 - 380 pages
...the cosmic process on the evolution of society is the greater the more rudimentary its civilization. Social progress means a checking of the cosmic process...of another, which may be called the ethical process ; the end of which is not the survival of those who may happen to be the fittest, in respect of the...
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The Lowell Lectures on the Ascent of Man

Henry Drummond - Evolution - 1894 - 368 pages
...of the enemy of ethical nature.'' 1 So far from the Ascent of Man running along the ancient line, " Social progress means a checking of the cosmic process...of another, which may be called the ethical process ; the end of which is not the survival of those who may happen to be fittest, in respect of the whole...
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A Study of Ethical Principles

James Seth - Ethics - 1894 - 488 pages
...pessimism 1 ' Evolution and Ethics,' 8. - Ibid., 12. are to be sought for in this contradiction, how " social progress means a checking of the cosmic process...another, which may be called the ethical process, the end of which is not the survival of those who may happen to be the fittest, in respect of the whole...
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The Monist, Volume 4

Paul Carus - Electronic journals - 1894 - 698 pages
...these qualities are in him, the more rapidly will he advance in the future. Says Professor Huxley : " Social progress means a checking of the cosmic process...of another, which may be called the ethical process ; the end of which is not the survival of those who may happen to be the fittest, in respect of the...
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