...principles of ethics: The ethical process is in opposition to the principle of the cosmic process; social progress means a checking of the cosmic process...of another, which may be called the ethical process ; let it be understood, once for all, that the ethical progress of society depends, not on imitating...

...regulating it, mitigating it, and that, too, 1 Pr. C. to K., p. 180. not instinctively but consciously, "Social progress means a checking of the cosmic process...another which may be called the ethical process." 1 That which restrains nature must surely be above nature, different from it and independent of it....

...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...fittest, in respect of the whole of the conditions which obtain, but of those who are ethically the best. « As I have already urged, the practice of that which...

...And this is not confined to physical things, but is extended to moral. "Social progress," he says, "means a checking of the cosmic process at every step...fittest, in respect of the whole of the conditions which obtain, but of those who are ethically the best." 2 And this leads to the final conclusion : " As I...

...earth, despite of their errors." Huxley also has brought out this idea with great force. He says : " Social progress means a checking of the cosmic process...may happen to be the fittest in respect of the whole conditions which exist, but of those who are ethically the best."* Even Nietzsche admits that " asceticism...

...He does not deny that ' men in society . . . are subject to the cosmic process,' but he holds that 'social progress means a checking of the cosmic process...another, which may be called the ethical process.' He also asserts that 'the practice of what we call goodness or virtue involves a course of conduct...

...such as the mathematical and musical faculties.2 In 1893, Huxley said in the Romanes Lecture, that ' Social progress means a checking of the cosmic process...another which may be called the ethical process.' In other words, natural 1 Infra, p. 55. 2 Darwinism, ch. xv. selection and the continuous accumulation...

...man's freedom and worth;—which must still animate the eloquence or the appeal of secularism." (3.) " Social progress means a checking of the cosmic process...step and the substitution for it of another which may in be called ' the ethical process.'"—Romanes Lecture, 1893 : " Evolution and Ethics." The position...

...to the development of intelligent beings for whom, as Huxley says, in his Romanes lecture in 1893, " Social progress means a checking of the cosmic process...another which may be called the ethical process." The phrase " cosmic process " has been subjected to searching criticism. It is somewhat vague, though not...

...conscious control, and must assume our full dignity as man. As Huxley said, in Evolution and Ethics:— "Social progress means a checking of the cosmic process...another, which may be called the ethical process. . . . It is from neglect of these plain considerations that the fanatical individualism of our time...