 | Paul Joseph Ohler - 2006 - 232 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...modifications must end in completeness. [ . . . ] as surely as there is any meaning in such terms as habit, custom, practice; — so surely must the human faculties... | |
 | Robert C. Richardson - 2010 - 227 sayfa
...and in time these adaptations would tend to be passed on to offspring. He said in Social Statics that The modifications mankind have undergone, and are...same, those modifications must end in completeness. (Spencer 1851, 65) The purpose of social change, driven by free competition, was a Utopian one. The... | |
 | Mark Patton - 2007 - 298 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 the embryo or the unfolding of a flower." John's sense of inevitable progress, inherited from his parents and encouraged by his visits to the... | |
 | Gustav Jahoda - 2007 - 12 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.' When Spencer referred to evolution in such contexts he meant Lamarckian evolution in the sense of the... | |
 | David Nasaw - 2007 - 932 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. ... As surely as the same creature assumes the different forms of cart-house and race-horse, according... | |
 | Stuart Piggott - 418 sayfa
.... . Evil tends perpetually to disappear. . . . Civilisation, instead of being artificial, is a part of nature; all of a piece with the development of the embryo or the unfolding of a flower.'31 It is an attitude of mind which characterises the cyclical model of the past constructed... | |
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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... 
