 I believe that the experiences of utility, organized and consolidated through all past generations of the human race, have been producing corresponding nervous modifications, which, by continued transmission and accumulation, have become in us certain...  Organic Evolution Considered - Page 236by Alfred Fairhurst - 1913 - 474 pagesFull view - About this book
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray IV, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - 1891 - 580 pages
...does not hesitate to declare, and we agree with him, is in the long run, futile.* He falls back on ' the experiences of utility organized and consolidated through all past generations of the human race' whereby we have attained, in his view, to ' certain faculties of moral intuition.' Hence, with the... | |
 | Robert Hall Baynes - 1880 - 674 pages
...organisms." According to Spencer, " revealed religion is impossible," and moral truths and feelings but "the experiences of utility, organized and consolidated through all past generations of the [human race, ,which have been producing corresponding nervous modifications, and which, by continued transmission... | |
 | 1869 - 280 pages
...personal experiences, has practically become a form of thought quite independent of experience, — so do I believe that the experiences of utility, organized...corresponding nervous modifications, which by continued transmissions and accumulation have become in us certain faculties of moral intuition, — active emotions... | |
 | 1869 - 588 pages
...periences, has practically become a form " of thought quite independent of expe" rience ; — so do I believe that the " experiences of utility, organized and " consolidated through all past genera" t ions of the human race, have bei n " producing corresponding nervous rco" difications which,... | |
 | Adolf Bastian - 1871 - 562 pages
...utility, organised and consolidated during all past generations of the human race, have been producing nervous modifications, which by continued transmission...right and wrong conduct, which have no apparent basis on the individual experiences of utility ^ Herbert Spencer). Butler speaks of self-love as if synonymous... | |
 | 1871 - 636 pages
...personal experiences, has practically become a form of thought quite independent of experience, — so do I believe that the experiences of utility, organized...corresponding nervous modifications, which by continued transmissions and accumulation have become in us certain faculties of moral intuition — active emotions... | |
 | Charles Darwin - 1871 - 468 pages
..." consolidated through all past generations of the human " race, have been producing corresponding modifications, " which, by continued transmission...— " certain emotions responding to right and wrong con" duct, which have no apparent basis in the individual " experiences of utility." There is not the... | |
 | Charles Beard - 1871 - 602 pages
...in 1868, from Mr. Herbert Spencer the following definition, as applied to the moral sentiments: f " I believe that the experiences of utility, organized...the human race, have been producing corresponding modifications, which by continued transmission and accumulation have become in us certain faculties... | |
 | 1871 - 608 pages
...in 1868, from Mr. Herbert Spencer the following definition, as applied to the moral sentiments : f " I believe that the experiences of utility, organized...the human race, have been producing corresponding modifications, which by continued transmission and accumulation have become in us certain faculties... | |
 | Charles Darwin - 1871 - 432 pages
...great philosopher, Herbert Spencer, has recently explained his views on the moral sense. He says : " " I believe that the experiences of utility organized...the human race, have been producing corresponding modifications, which, by continued transmission and accumulation, have become in us certain faculties... | |
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