 The following proposition seems to me in a high degree probable — namely, that any animal whatever, endowed with well-marked social instincts, the parental and filial affections being here included, would inevitably acquire a moral sense or conscience,...  The Evolution of Morality - Side 49af Charles Staniland Wake - 1878Fuld visning - Om denne bog
 | 1871 - 630 sider
...natural history : — ' The following proposition seems to me in a high degree probable — namely, that any animal whatever, endowed with well-marked...developed, or nearly as well developed, as in man. For, firstly, the social instincts lead an animal to take pleasure in the society of its fellows, to... | |
 | New Church gen. confer - 1871 - 644 sider
...fellows, as well as enabling him to think concerning these instincts. Hence Mr. Darwin says :— " Any animal whatever, endowed with well-marked social...developed, or nearly as well developed, as in man." The argument is peculiar: — "As soon as the mental faculties had become highly developed, images... | |
 | 1871 - 1202 sider
...all." Mr. Darwin thinks that " any animal whatever, endowed with well-marked social instincts, wonld inevitably acquire a moral sense or conscience as...developed, or nearly as well developed, as in man." * In enunciating this dictum our author pretty well contradicts himself; for he says, that such a creature... | |
 | 1871 - 608 sider
...Mr. Darwin's practice of begging the question at issue, we may quote the following assertion : — ' Any animal whatever, endowed with well-marked social...developed, or nearly as well developed, as in man' (vol. ip 71). This is "either a monstrous assumption or a mere truism ; it is a truism, for of course,... | |
 | 1877 - 506 sider
...endowed with well-marked social instincts, the parental and filial affections being here included, would inevitably acquire a moral sense or conscience,...soon as its intellectual powers had become as well, or nearly as well, developed, as in man." Now before we can discuss that proposition itself, we must... | |
 | 1871 - 808 sider
...human race. '' The following proposition," he says, " seems to me in a high degree probable — namely, that any animal whatever, endowed with well-marked...developed, or nearly as well developed, as in man." For, firstly, the social instincts lead an animal to take pleasure in the society of its fellows, to... | |
 | 1871 - 860 sider
...Darwin's practice of begging the question at issue, •we may quote the following assertion : — '• Any animal whatever, endowed with •well-marked social...developed, or nearly as well developed, as in man " (vol. ip 71). This is either a monstrous assumption or a mere truism; it is a truism, for of course,... | |
 | 1883 - 934 sider
...modifications of past generations have undergone. And the late Mr. Darwin thought it probable in a high degree that any animal whatever, endowed with well-marked...as well developed, or nearly as well developed, as man's. DAMON. I have the greatest respect for all facts, and consider that we owe much, both to Mr.... | |
 | 1871 - 528 sider
...human race. " The following proposition," he says, " seems to me in a high degree probable — namely, that any animal whatever, endowed with well-marked...developed, or nearly as well developed, as in man." For, firstly, the social instincts lead an animal to take pleasure in the society of its fellows, to... | |
 | 1871 - 612 sider
...Mr. Darwin's practice of begging the question at issue, we may quote the following assertion : — ' Any animal whatever, endowed with well-marked social...developed, or nearly as well developed, as in man' (vol. ip 71). This is either a monstrous assumption or a mere truism ; it is a truism, for of course,... | |
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