 | Paul Carus - 1889 - 288 pages
...among these, so among primitive men, the weakest and stupidest went to the wall, while the toughest and shrewdest, those who were best fitted to cope...circumstances, but not the best in any other sense, survived. * * * of his moral qualities. The antediluvial fox was perhaps shrewder, and the lion or bear tougher,... | |
 | David George Ritchie - 1889 - 140 pages
...which the human race has made to escape from this position [ie, the struggle for existence in which those who were best fitted to cope with their circumstances, but not the best in any other sense, survived]. The first men who substituted the state of mutual peace for that of mutual war, whatever the motive... | |
 | 1890 - 1182 pages
...to cope with their circumstances, but not the best in another way, survived. Life was a continuous free fight, and beyond the limited and temporary relations...Hobbesian war of each against all was the normal state of existence.3 In how far this view of nature is supported by fact, will be seen from the evidence which... | |
 | 1890 - 898 pages
...among animals, so among primitive men, the weakest and stupidest went to the wall, while the toughest and shrewdest, those who were best fitted to cope with their circumstances, but not the best in another way, survived. Life was a continuous free tight, and beyond the limited and temporary relations... | |
 | 1890 - 1080 pages
...among animals, so among primitive men, the weakest and stupidest went to the wall, while the toughest and shrewdest, those who were best fitted to cope with their circumstances, but not the best in another way, survived. Life was a continuous free fight, and beyond the limited and temporary relations... | |
 | 1891 - 1064 pages
...existence to its bitter end, and living a life of ' continual free fight ' ; to quote his own words — 'beyond the limited and temporary relations of the...each against all was the normal state of existence.' * It has been remarked more than once that the chief error of Hobbes and the eighteenth-century philosophers... | |
 | James Thompson Bixby - 1891 - 332 pages
...p. 262. as among primitive men, the weakest and stupidest went to the wall, while the toughest amd shrewdest, those who were best fitted to cope with their circumstances, but not the best in another way, survived. Life was a continuous free fight, and beyond the limited and temporary relations... | |
 | John Arthur Thomson - 1892 - 398 pages
...Kropotkinifs Position. — Against Prof. Huxley's conclusion that " Life was a continual free-fight, and beyond the limited and temporary relations of...each against all was the normal state of existence," let me place that of Kropotkine, to whose admirable discussion of mutual aid among animals I again... | |
 | Henry Drummond - 1894 - 368 pages
...to be praised or blamed, on moral grounds, than their less erect and more hairy compatriots. . . . Life was a continual free fight, and beyond the limited...state of existence. The human species, like others, splashed and floundered amid the general stream of evolution, keeping its head above water as it best... | |
 | 1897 - 422 pages
...primitive man as a kind of ape or tiger, deprived of all moral qualities. " Life was a continual free-fight and beyond the limited and temporary relations of...each against all was the normal state of existence." * How then has man gained the morality which is so essential for his further evolution in society ?... | |
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... the weakest and stupidest went to the wall, while the toughest and shrewdest, those who were best fitted to cope with their circumstances, but not the best in another way, survived. Life was a continuous free fight, and beyond the limited and temporary... 
