...those of Spencer: The thief and the murderer follow nature just as much as the philanthropist. . . . Social progress means a checking of the cosmic process...another, which may be called the ethical process; the end of which is not the survival of those which happen to be the fittest . . . but of those who...

...the production of what man recognizes as truly the " best," is in opposition to the cosmic process. " Social progress means a checking of the cosmic process at every step." In a companion essay Huxley compared the ethical process to the work of the gardener: the state of...

...theodicy, he espoused the pursuit of an ethical order that would directly oppose the cosmic. He declared, Social progress means a checking of the cosmic process...another, which may be called the ethical process; the end of which is not the survival of those who may happen to be the fittest, in respect of the whole...

...defender, was the question of progress. In a famous lecture at Oxford on "Evolution and Ethics," he said: Social progress means a checking of the cosmic process...another, which may be called the ethical process; the end of which is not the survival of those who may happen to be the fittest ... but of those who...

...in his famous Romanes lecture of 1893, "Evolution and Ethics." "Social progress," he argued there, "means a checking of the cosmic process at every step,...another, which may be called the ethical process; the end of which is not the survival of those who may happen to be the fittest, in respect of the whole...

...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...another, which may be called the ethical process." The cosmic struggle for existence "is directed, not so much to the survival of the fittest, as to the...

...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...another, which may be called the ethical process; the end of which is not the survival of those who may happen to be the fittest, in respect of the whole...

...owes, if not existence itself, at least the life of something better than a brutal savage. In short, 'social progress means a checking of the cosmic process...another which may be called the ethical process'. This leads up to the characteristic call to arms with which the address concludes: 'Let us understand,...

...and ethical implication. We must give special reference to the central thesis of Huxley's lectures: "Social progress means a checking of the cosmic process...another, which may be called the ethical process. . . . The ethical progress of society depends, not on imitating the cosmic process, still less in running...

...no school of virtue, but the headquarters of the enemy of ethical nature."21 They fail to see that "social progress means a checking of the cosmic process...for it of another, which may be called the ethical process."22 Granted, "for his successful progress, throughout the savage state, man has been largely...