Science , Error. The corpse at your feet. That little inconvenience. The universe is populated by stable things. The replicators Law , Universe. Arthur Harris in a friendly criticism of my views: "Natural selection may explain the survival of the fittest, but it cannot explain the arrival of the fittest.
Animals , Time. Herbert Spencer of the Survival of the Fittest is more accurate, and is sometimes equally convenient. The unscrupulous succeed best in accumulating wealth. Sawyer, Calculating God. The size and the importance of the United States throws on you a special responsibility in your endeavours to safeguard the future of our race.
Those who are attending your Congress will be aiding in this endeavour, and though you will gain no thanks from your own generation, posterity will, I believe, learn to realize the great dept it owes to all the workers in this field.
Bazzar, Heir of Ashes. He never asked himself the question. He knew only hate and lost himself in the passion of it. Life had become a hell to him. He had not been made for the close confinement wild beasts endure at the hands of men. And yet it was in precisely this way that he was treated. Men stared at him, poked sticks between the bars to make him snarl, and then laughed at him. It was a matter of principle and conscience. He felt that the ill done White Fang was a debt incurred by man and that it must be paid.
Civilized people share a value system that extends far beyond doing whatever it takes to survive. Mere barbarians might be devoted to a life of exploitation. In contrast, civilized people value nature and care for the most vulnerable members of their kind. Oldster, Dead Toad Scrolls. He was not homesick. The Sunland was very dim and distant, and such memories had no power over him. Far more potent were the memories of his heredity that gave things he had never seen before a seeming familiarity; the instincts which were but the memories of his ancestors become habits which had lapsed in later days, and still later, in him, quickened and became alive again.
We have evolved to grow out of it. Born in Derby in central England, Spencer was largely self-taught. Eventually, he supported himself solely through writing. Nine of these volumes appeared between and Spencer wrote:. Arguably, some echo of this sentiment was on display in the past few weeks, as protesters voiced their disapproval of mandatory lockdowns in the fight against COVID The term was introduced by British philosopher G.
Moore in his book Principia Ethica , which was highly skeptical of Spencer. Rather than seeing nature as cruel, he saw it as beneficent; nature was a progressive affair. Muhammad Imran Hasan. Herbert Spencer. Francis Maitland Balfour. Charles Darwin. Theodosius Dobzhansky. Pierre-Louis Moreau De Maupertuis. Kim Stanley Robinson. In human terms, most ethical There is no strength to be gained from hurting one another. Only weakness. We civilised men, on the other hand, do our utmost to check the process of elimination; we build asylums for the imbecile, the maimed, and the sick; we institute poor-laws; and our medical men exert their utmost skill to save the life of every one to the last moment.
There is reason to believe that vaccination has preserved thousands, who from a weak constitution would formerly have succumbed to small-pox. Thus the weak members of civilised societies propagate their kind. No one who has attended to the breeding of domestic animals will doubt that this must be highly injurious to the race of man.
It is surprising how soon a want of care, or care wrongly directed, leads to the degeneration of a domestic race; but excepting in the case of man himself, hardly any one is so ignorant as to allow his worst animals to breed. The aid which we feel impelled to give to the helpless is mainly an incidental result of the instinct of sympathy, which was originally acquired as part of the social instincts, but subsequently rendered, in the manner previously indicated, more tender and more widely diffused.
Nor could we check our sympathy, if so urged by hard reason, without deterioration in the noblest part of our nature. The surgeon may harden himself whilst performing an operation, for he knows that he is acting for the good of his patient; but if we were intentionally to neglect the weak and helpless, it could only be for a contingent benefit, with a certain and great present evil.
Hence we must bear without complaining the undoubtedly bad effects of the weak surviving and propagating their kind; but there appears to be at least one check in steady action, namely the weaker and inferior members of society not marrying so freely as the sound; and this check might be indefinitely increased, though this is more to be hoped for than expected, by the weak in body or mind refraining from marriage.
He was one of the greatest men who ever touched this globe. He has explained more of the phenomena of life than all of the religious teachers.
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