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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... improvement on the last , if the last did itself improve ; which makes each civilisation not a set of detached dots , but a line of colour , surely enhancing shade by shade . There is , by this doctrine , a physical cause of improvement ...
... improvement on the last , if the last did itself improve ; which makes each civilisation not a set of detached dots , but a line of colour , surely enhancing shade by shade . There is , by this doctrine , a physical cause of improvement ...
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... improved conditions tend to improve human action , and that deteriorated conditions tend to deprave human action . No Freewillist ever expects as much from St. Giles's as he expects from Belgravia : he admits an hereditary nervous ...
... improved conditions tend to improve human action , and that deteriorated conditions tend to deprave human action . No Freewillist ever expects as much from St. Giles's as he expects from Belgravia : he admits an hereditary nervous ...
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... improved in that state . The conclusive arguments against the imagined original civilisation are indeed plain to everyone . Nothing is more intel- ligible than a moral deterioration of mankind — nothing than an æsthetic degradation ...
... improved in that state . The conclusive arguments against the imagined original civilisation are indeed plain to everyone . Nothing is more intel- ligible than a moral deterioration of mankind — nothing than an æsthetic degradation ...
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... improved upon it and elaborated it , and whom posterity reads . Some strong writer , or group of writers , thus seize on the public mind , and a curious process soon assimilates other writers in appearance to them . To some extent , no ...
... improved upon it and elaborated it , and whom posterity reads . Some strong writer , or group of writers , thus seize on the public mind , and a curious process soon assimilates other writers in appearance to them . To some extent , no ...
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... improvement has been continuous I have not the slightest pretence to special knowledge ; but , looking at the mere ... improved . By degrees , ' says a most accomplished writer , ' ' barbarian mercenaries came to form the largest , or at ...
... improvement has been continuous I have not the slightest pretence to special knowledge ; but , looking at the mere ... improved . By degrees , ' says a most accomplished writer , ' ' barbarian mercenaries came to form the largest , or at ...
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