 | Jan Sapp - 2003 - 388 pages
...toughest and shrewdest. those who were best fitted to cope with their circumstances, survived. Life was a free fight. and beyond the limited and temporary relations...Hobbesian war of each against all was the normal state of existence,"4 In a lecture titled "Evolution and Ethics." Huxley insisted there was no trace of moral... | |
 | William M. Dugger, Howard J. Sherman - 2003 - 288 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."2' It has been remarked more than once that the chief error of Hobbes, and the eighteenth-century... | |
 | John Glendening - 2007 - 254 pages
...Existence in Human Society" Huxley can say, with only slight qualification, that for primitive people "Life was a continual free fight, and beyond the limited...each against all was the normal state of existence" (204). He suggests that such is also the condition of contemporary savages who also embody the struggle... | |
 | Simon King - 2006 - 70 pages
...down, as no quarter is given. The life of nature is 'a continual free fight', and for man in nature 'the Hobbesian war of each against all was the normal state of existence.' Man out of nature is 'governed upon the principle of moral evolution' rather than natural evolution;... | |
 | Tristram Stuart - 2007 - 692 pages
...and shrewdest . . . but not the best in another way, survived. Life was a continuous free fight . . . the Hobbesian war of each against all was the normal state of existence.' In order to escape the ruthlessness of nature, Huxley claimed, humans had to overcome their natural... | |
 | John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell - 1888 - 926 pages
...and died, for thousands of generations, alongside the mammoth, the urus, the lion, and the hyaena, whose lives were spent in the same way ; and they...water as it best might, and thinking neither of whence nor whither. The history of civilization — that is of society — on the other hand, is the record... | |
 | 1920 - 758 pages
...and Darwin hold that the savage was a purely competitive being. Thus Huxley :— " Beyond the limited temporary relations of the family the Hobbesian war...each against all was the normal state of existence." It may be argued, with some success, that when man's wants were few he could be his own agent of supply.... | |
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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... 
