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" 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 236
by Alfred Fairhurst - 1913 - 474 pages
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History of Philosophy: History of modern philosophy. With additions by the ...

Friedrich Ueberweg - 1876 - 604 pages
...Ethical truths and sentiments are thus accounted for : ' The experiences of utility, с>р_т1гп7.«ч1 and consolidated through all past generations of the...modifications, which, by continued transmission and ••!• ••umulation. have become in ns certain faculties of moral intuition — certain emotions...
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Proceedings at the ... Annual Meeting of the Free Religious ..., Volume 9

Free Religious Association (Boston, Mass.). Meeting - 1876 - 522 pages
...relative positions aa should give rise to the least possible friction, the utmost fullness of life. " The experiences of utility organized and consolidated...of the human race have been producing corresponding modifications which by transmission and accumulation have become in us certain faculties of moral intuition."...
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Report of the ... Meeting of the National Conference of ..., Volumes 7-8

1876 - 382 pages
...reached. This is the result which is taken for granted by the new ethics. In the Iangunge of Spenser, " The experiences of utility, organized and consolidated...the human race, have been producing corresponding modifications, which by continued transmission and accumulation have become in us certain faculties...
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The Religious Feeling: A Study for Faith

Newman Smyth - 1877 - 190 pages
...theory of the moral sense is stated in its strongest form by Herbert Spencer. "I believe," he says, "that the experiences of utility organized and consolidated...the human race, have been producing corresponding modifications, which, by continued transmissions and accumulation, have become in us certain faculties...
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Official Report of the Proceedings of the Meeting, Volume 8

1878 - 176 pages
...reached. This is the result which is taken for granted by the new ethics. In the language of Spenser, " The experiences of utility, organized and consolidated...the human race, have been producing corresponding modifications, which by continued transmission and accumulation have become in us certain faculties...
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The British Quarterly Review, Volumes 67-68

Henry Allon - 1878 - 694 pages
...experiences of utility gradually organized and inherited, they have come to be quite independent of conscious experience. . . . I believe that the experiences of...and consolidated through all past generations of the race, have been producing nervous modifications, which by continued transmission and accumulation have...
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The British Quarterly Review, Volume 68

1878 - 616 pages
...experiences of utility gradually organized and inherited, they have come to be quite independent of conscious experience. ... I believe that the experiences of...and consolidated through all past generations of the race, have been producing nervous modifications, which by continued transmission and accumulation have...
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The Princeton Review

1879 - 652 pages
...experience received by the race." In fact, the conscience seems to be merely a nervous structure. " I believe that the experiences of utility organized...modifications which, by continued transmission and aceumulation, have become in us certain faculties of moral intuition." Our moral intuitions are thus...
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Kantian Ethics and the Ethics of Evolution: A Critical Study

Jacob Gould Schurman - 1881 - 128 pages
...without in any way testing their validity. And the general result of the ethics of evolution is that " experiences of utility organized and consolidated...emotions responding to right and wrong conduct."* This surely * Data of Ethics, p. 123. is a wonderful attempt at graphic illustration. You see, as it...
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The North American Review, Volume 132

1881 - 674 pages
...conscience has been discovered to be merely a nervous structure. " I believe," says our authority, " that the experiences of utility, organized and consolidated...become in us certain faculties of moral intuition." It thus appears that our conscience consists of nervous modifications become hereditary. It is preposterous...
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