...Josue, as 1 "Cosmic evolution may teach us how the good and evil tendencies of man may have come ahout; but, in itself, it is incompetent to furnish any better...preferable to what we call evil than we had before." the most vivid caricatures . of unreason. . . Such considerations made it seem to many of those who...

...much as the philanthropist. Cosmic evolution may teach us how the good and the evil tendencies of man may have come about ; but, in itself, it is incompetent...preferable to what we call evil than we had before. There is another fallacy which appears to me to pervade the so-called " ethics of evolution." It is...

...to say to which he will ultimately adhere. Thus, as to the future of evolution, he tells 18 us — Some day, I doubt not, we shall arrive at an understanding of the evolution of the aesthetic faculty. He affirms also that those who seek to find ' the origin of the moral sentiments ' [the Kt. Honble....

...the restraining of advertisements of this kind. (Laughter.)" Mr Huxley docs not doubt that "some day we shall arrive at an understanding of the evolution of the aesthetic faculty i" it is to be regretted that thit understanding has not yet been officially arrived at, and that the...

...much as the philanthropist. Cosmic evolution may teach us how the good and the evil tendencies of man may have come about ; but, in itself, it is incompetent...preferable to what we call evil than we had before." Concerning the fallacy which identifies "the fittest" and "the best " he says : " I suspect that this...

...conceded by one of the foremost exponents of the theory of evolution. Huxley says : "Cosmic evolution is incompetent to furnish any better reason why what...preferable to what we call evil than we had before. * * All the understanding in the world will neither increase nor diminish the force of the intuition...

..."EvoluTion and Ethics" by TR Huxley, FRS A, come about ; but, in itself, it is incompetent to f urnisl any better reason why what we call good is preferable to what we call evil than we had before," in the religions and philosophies of the past and especially in those of India. "Fragile reed as he...

...frankly, that no " discovery of how the good and evil tendencies came about is competent to furnish us any better reason why what we call good is preferable to what we call evil than we had before."* There is then a power or faculty possessed by man, enabling him to distinguish good from evil, whose...

...beeo shown competent to do that which " cosmic evolution " of itself cannot do — viz., " furnish a reason why what we call good is preferable to what we call evil," and that without denying the reality testified to by " the universal experience of mankind " of " pain...

...the remarkable statement that "Cosmic evolution may teach us how the good and evil tendencies in man may have come about; but, in itself, it is incompetent...preferable to what we call evil than we had before." He alludes to processes of degeneration as in conflict with the conception of an ethical aspect or...