 | Anne Harrington - 1989 - 356 sayfa
...of civilization being artificial it is a part of nature; all of a piece with the development of an embryo or the unfolding of a flower. The modifications...from a law underlying the whole organic creation. ... As surely as a tree becomes bulky when it stands alone, and slender if one of a group; as surely... | |
 | Larry A. Hickman - 1990 - 255 sayfa
...therefore, is not an accident, but a necessity. Instead of civilization being artificial, it is a part of nature; all of a piece with the development of the embryo or the unfolding of a flower."15 Spencer's influence in the United States was at its peak about the time that he made his... | |
 | Stanley Buder - 1990 - 288 sayfa
...that "progress is not an accident but a necessity. Instead of civilization being artificial it is part of nature; all of a piece with the development of the embryo and the unfolding of a flower." Twentieth-century liberalism has envisioned national history as a process... | |
 | Richard Hofstadter - 1992 - 292 sayfa
...therefore, is not an accident, but a necessity. Instead of civili/ation being artificial, it a a part of nature; all of a piece with the development of the embryo or the unfolding of a flower." Despite its radicalism on incidental themes — the injustice of private land ownership, the rights... | |
 | Geoffrey Martin Hodgson - 1996 - 398 sayfa
...epigenetic or ontogenetic terms. He thus wrote: 'Progress, therefore, is not an accident, it is a part of nature; all of a piece with the development of the embryo or the unfolding of a flower' (Spencer, 1851, p. 65). For him, evolution meant increasing progress and efficiency in the direction... | |
 | Roy M. MacLeod, Philip F. Rehbock - 1994 - 562 sayfa
...Progress ... is not an accident, but a necessity. Instead of civilization being artificial, it is part of nature; all of a piece with the development of...unfolding of a flower. The modifications mankind have [sic] undergone, and are still undergoing, result from a law underlying the whole of organic creation;... | |
 | Thomas Molnar - 1994 - 396 sayfa
...therefore, is not an accident but a necessity. Instead of civilization being artificial, it is a part of nature; all of a piece with the development of the embryo or the unfolding of a flower." 10 It was easy to build on such a premise a justification of free enterprise. In the United States,... | |
 | Adrian J. Desmond, James Richard Moore - 1994 - 910 sayfa
...necessity. It was a 'law underlying the whole organic creation;' civilization was 'a part of nature; all a piece with the development of the embryo or the unfolding of a flower.' It was a guarantee that evil will ultimately disappear and man 'become perfect.'7 By the summer of... | |
 | Kevin R. McNamara - 1996 - 340 sayfa
...maintained that social progress is "part of nature; it is all of a piece with the development of an embryo or the unfolding of a flower. The modifications...same, those modifications must end in completeness" and more complex social organisms. Evolutionary progress is, we are asked to believe, what best describes... | |
 | Russ Marion - 1999 - 378 sayfa
..."Progress ... is not an accident, but a necessity. Instead of civilization being artificial, it is a part of nature; all of a piece with the development of the embryo or the unfolding of a flower" (quoted in Lewin, 1992, p. 147). This is the essence of the Spencerian insight: Social structure is... | |
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Progress, therefore, is not an accident, but a necessity. Instead of civilization being artificial, it is a part of nature; all of a piece with the development of the embryo or the unfolding of a flower. The modifications mankind have undergone, and are... 
