Darwinism and PoliticsS. Sonneschein, 1889 - 101 頁 |
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advance argument Aryan beneficent better biological formulæ capable of surviving Charles Darwin civilisation competition conscious creed customs DARWINISM AND POLITICS Descent difference doctrine of heredity economic struggle eminence equality ethics Evolution Theory evolutionist fittest FREDERIC HILBORN HALL Galton's German Grant Allen habits HARVARD COLLEGE Herbert Spencer Hereditary Genius higher HILBORN HALL Class human race human society Huxley Ichthyosaurus ideas imitation individual and individual inferior influence inherited institutions intellectual J. S. Mill kind labour laissez faire language laws less Lord Brougham LORD PALMERSTON lower animals lower races Malthus Malthus's means of subsistence MEMORY OF FREDERIC ment merely military moral nation natural selection nobility objection opinion peerage physical population primitive principle race and race regard religion representative government scientific seems sense sexes sexual selection Sir Henry Maine social evolution Sparta species stammering Strauss struggle between race struggle for existence success tion transmitted tribe type of society women
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第 49 頁 - I believe, and shall do my best to show, that, if the "eminent" men of any period had been changelings when babies, a very fair proportion of those who survived and retained their health up to fifty years of age, would, notwithstanding their altered circumstances have equally risen to eminence.
第 12 頁 - ... 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 vigour.
第 16 頁 - As among these, so among primitive men, the weakest and stupidest went to the wall, while the toughest and shrewdest, those who were best fitted to cope with their circumstances, but not the best in any other sense, survived. Life was a continual free fight, and beyond the limited and temporary relations of the family, the Hobbesian war of each against all was the normal state of existence.
第 47 頁 - I acknowledge freely the great power of education and social influences in developing the active powers of the mind, just as I acknowledge the effect of use in developing the muscles of a blacksmith's arm, and no further.
第 16 頁 - In the strict sense of the word { nature,' it denotes the sum of the phenomenal world, of that which has been, and is, and will be ; and society, like art, is therefore a part of nature. But it is convenient to distinguish those parts of nature in which man plays the part of immediate cause, as something apart ; and, therefore, society, like art, is usefully to be considered as distinct from nature. It is the more desirable, and even necessary, to make this distinction, since society differs from...
第 16 頁 - ... the course shaped by the eth:cal 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...
第 87 頁 - ... from which we can never altogether escape, — the struggle against nature, including the blind forces of human passion. There will always be enough to do in this ceaseless struggle to call forth all the energies of which human nature at its very best is capable. At present how much of these energies, intellectual and moral as well as physical, is wasted in mutual destruction ! May we not hope that by degrees this mutual conflict will be turned into mutual help?