...advanced the view that rational life is a new appearance, operating under distinct laws, inasmuch as " social progress means a checking of the cosmic process...every step, and the substitution for it of another" (Evolution and Ethics, p. 33). Our author noticed that this opened up the line of argument to " the...

...practise of self-restraint in the interests of society he called the ethical process, and he showed that social progress means a checking of the cosmic process at every step and the substitution of this ethical process. This action he compares to that of a gardener in clearing a patch of waste...

...subject to the cosmic process. The strongest, the most self-assertive, tend to tread down the weaker. But social progress means a checking of the cosmic process...which exist, but of those who are ethically the best. The practice of that which is ethically best involves a course of conduct which is in all respects...

...tend to tread down the weaker. But social progress means a checking of the cosmic process at ever}r step, and the substitution for it of another which...which exist, but of those who are ethically the best. The practice of that which is ethically best involves a course of conduct which is in all respects...

...subject to the cosmic process. The strongest, the most self-assertive, tend to tread down the weaker. But social progress means a checking of the cosmic process...end of which is not the survival of those who may hap|>en to be the fittest in respect of the whole of the conditions which exist, but of those who are...

...should pit itself against the macrocosm, and " social progress means a checking of the cosmic progress at every step and the substitution for it of another which may be called the ethical progress." Such, in substance, is the string of pyrotechnical paradoxes through which the eminent English...

...pruning-hooks. That day will dawn when benevolence reigns supreme. Natural selection, or survival of the fittest in respect of the -whole of the conditions which exist, relates especially to the survival of those who are ethically the best, as the ethical endowment is...

...in the most rudimentary stages and declines as civilization advances. " Social Progress," he says, " means a checking of the cosmic process at every step,...those who may happen to be the fittest, in respect to the whole of the conditions which exist, but of those who are ethically the best." ! Later biological...

...or the "Ethical process," which attacks the cosmic process at every step, and substitutes for it a process . . . the end of which is not the survival...whole of the conditions which exist, but of those which are ethically the best. ..." The history of civilisation," he proceeds, " details the steps by...

...was stated above, that adaptation to the physical environment cannot be the supreme law. He says: " Social progress means a checking of the cosmic process at every step and the substitution of another which may be called the ethical process ; the end of which is not the survival of those...