...Monthly, p. 21.] \ See The Genesis of Species, p. 325. * [December Monthly, p. 189.] We read also : Social progress means a checking of the cosmic process...another, which may be called the ethical process. It depends (he tells ns on the next page) not on imitating the cosmic process, still less in running...

...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...

...distinct from the cosmical. "Social progress," Mr. Huxley tells us, " means a checking of the cosmical process at every step and the substitution for it...be called the ethical process ; the end of which is hot the survival of those who may happen to be the fittest, in respect of the whole conditions which...

...called the ethical process ; the end of which is not the survival of those who may happen to be f1ttest, in respect of the whole of the conditions which exist, but of those who are ethically the best. 2 " The expedient, to him, was a necessity. Viewing Nature as Mr. Huxley viewed it there was no other...

...pessimism 1 ' Evolution and Ethics,' 8. s Ibid., 12. are to be sought for in this contradiction, how " social progress means a checking of the cosmic process...conditions which exist, but of those who are ethically the best;"1 how "the practice of that which is ethically the best — what we call goodness or virtue —...

...: "Cosmic nature is no school of virtue, but the headquarters of the enemy of ethical nature. . . . Social progress means a checking of the cosmic process...is not the survival of those who may happen to be fittest, in respect to the whole of the conditions which exist, but of those who are ethically the...

...setting in of a glacial epoch causes the survival of a purely Arctic fauna. " Social progress means the checking of the cosmic process at every step, and...fittest in respect of the whole of the conditions which obtain, but of those which are ethically the best." We have here a new standard, the ethical, which...

...the maintenance and success of them is a question of popular charac"' Social progress," he tells us, "means a checking of the cosmic process at every step...ethical process; the end of which is not the survival of who may happen to be the fittest, in respect of the whole of the conditions which obtain, but of those...

...deliberate expression to the outstanding contrast between the cosmic process and the ethical, showing that 'social progress means a checking of the cosmic process at every step.' When a discovery such as Darwin's has been made, which revolutionises the accepted thought of past...

...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...which exist, but of those who are ethically the best, THOMAS HUXLEY. Viewed merely as a human or literary production, the Bible is a marvelous book, and...