Physics and Politics: Or, Thoughts on the Application of the Principles of "natural Selection" and "inheritance" to Political SocietyC. K. Paul & Company, 1881 - 224 pagini |
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Pagina 40
... brings this mingling of ideas , this breaking down of old creeds , and brings it inevitably . It is now- a - days its greatest good that it does so ; what we call ' enlargement of mind . ' times Providence set apart the nations ; ' and ...
... brings this mingling of ideas , this breaking down of old creeds , and brings it inevitably . It is now- a - days its greatest good that it does so ; what we call ' enlargement of mind . ' times Providence set apart the nations ; ' and ...
Pagina 56
... brings before us with a feeling so vivid as to be almost a feeling of our own . Yet the classical religion is a mild and tender specimen of the preserved religions . To get at the worst , you should look where the destroying competition ...
... brings before us with a feeling so vivid as to be almost a feeling of our own . Yet the classical religion is a mild and tender specimen of the preserved religions . To get at the worst , you should look where the destroying competition ...
Pagina 60
... be selected for the future . The point I am bringing out is simple : -one most impor- tant pre - requisite of a prevailing nation is that it should have passed out of the first stage of civilisation 60 PHYSICS AND POLITICS .
... be selected for the future . The point I am bringing out is simple : -one most impor- tant pre - requisite of a prevailing nation is that it should have passed out of the first stage of civilisation 60 PHYSICS AND POLITICS .
Pagina 69
... brings out a form of character better suited than either parent form to the place and time ; that in such cases , by a kind of natural selection , it dominates over both parents , and perhaps supplants both , whereas in other cases the ...
... brings out a form of character better suited than either parent form to the place and time ; that in such cases , by a kind of natural selection , it dominates over both parents , and perhaps supplants both , whereas in other cases the ...
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... bring many graces and many refinements , and often tend to secure them by the preservative military virtue . There are cases in which some step in intellectual progress gives an early society some gain in war ; more obvious cases are ...
... bring many graces and many refinements , and often tend to secure them by the preservative military virtue . There are cases in which some step in intellectual progress gives an early society some gain in war ; more obvious cases are ...
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