 | Franklin Johnson - 1904 - 188 pages
...the ape and the tiger For thousands and thousands of years .... the human * The Ascent of Man, p. 20. species, like others, plashed and floundered amid...water as it best might, and thinking neither of whence nor whither." How, then, does Mr. Huxley act .... in the face of this tremendous problem? He gives... | |
 | Hector Carsewell Macpherson - 1904 - 304 pages
...cope with their circumstances, but not the best in another way, survived. Life was I25 a continuous free fight, and beyond the limited and temporary relations...family, the Hobbesian war of each against all was the natural state of existence." That is to say, life both in the animal and human kingdom was a kind of... | |
 | John Arthur Thomson - 1908 - 272 pages
...the battlefield of the strong, but the home of the loving ? According to Huxley, life has been and is a continual free fight, and beyond the limited and...the family, the Hobbesian war of each against all has been and is the normal state of existence. But, as Kropotkin observes, this has as little claim... | |
 | Conwy Lloyd Morgan - 1908 - 364 pages
...— including, perhaps, some rather apocryphal instances,— and combats Huxley's statement f that, " beyond the limited and temporary relations of the family, the Hobbesian war of each against all is the normal state of existence " among animals and primitive men. '' Life * Vol. xxviii., Sept. and... | |
 | Hermann Reinheimer - 1910 - 432 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...each against all was the normal state of existence ' ? " Thus Darwin's work, in the opinion of Kropotkin, if it had been properly pursued, would have... | |
 | Petr Alekseevich Kropotkin (kni︠a︡zʹ) - 1910 - 374 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...Hobbesian war of each against all was the normal state of existence."1 It has been remarked more than once that the chief error of Hobbes, and the eighteenth-century... | |
 | Aukusti Robert Niemi - 1913 - 1058 pages
...go back the more incessant was the work of destruction». Huxley 3 maintains that in primitive times »life was a continual free fight, and beyond the...each against all was the normal state of existence». Although Vaccaro admits that »aux premiers âges de l'humanité, lorsque les hommes, encore sans armes,... | |
 | Adam Gowans Whyte - 1915 - 168 pages
...is on about the same level as a gladiator's show." Even among primitive men "life was a continuous free fight, and beyond the limited and temporary relations...each against all was the normal state of existence." In taking this view of Nature red in tooth and claw, Huxley omitted a vital aspect ; and his omission... | |
 | Petr Alekseevich Kropotkin (kni︠a︡zʹ) - 1915 - 258 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...the family, the Hobbesian war of each against all wab the normal state of existence." l In how far this view of nature is supported by fact, will be... | |
 | George William Nasmyth - 1916 - 458 pages
...shrewdest, those who were best fitted to cope with their circumstances, but not the best in another sense, survived. Life was a continual free fight,...each against all was the normal state of existence. 1 But when he begins to apply the theory of evolution to human relations, Huxley turns away from the... | |
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As 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 with their circumstances, but not the best in any other sense, survived. Life was a continual free... 
