Morals in Evolution: A Study in Comparative Ethics, Part 1Henry Holt & Company, 1906 - Ethics, Evolutionary |
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... carrying out these actions , considerable variations may be possible according to the particular circumstances in which the animal finds itself placed . Thus in the springtime it is the instinct of birds to pair , to build nests , to ...
... carrying out these actions , considerable variations may be possible according to the particular circumstances in which the animal finds itself placed . Thus in the springtime it is the instinct of birds to pair , to build nests , to ...
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... carry the animal beyond the direct and immediate results of a given reaction . One kind of act gives pleasure and another pain , and these pleasures and pains must , it would seem , be feelings of the agent itself ; and though the act ...
... carry the animal beyond the direct and immediate results of a given reaction . One kind of act gives pleasure and another pain , and these pleasures and pains must , it would seem , be feelings of the agent itself ; and though the act ...
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... carry us beyond that simple modification of an inherited method of action which we find in the case of the chick . The dog does not simply avoid the sofa , he does not merely and stupidly associate a sofa with the beating , he continues ...
... carry us beyond that simple modification of an inherited method of action which we find in the case of the chick . The dog does not simply avoid the sofa , he does not merely and stupidly associate a sofa with the beating , he continues ...
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... carried on without some degree of mutual understanding , still less the more complicated business of social life . We shall meet a little later with certain primitive tribes , which are to all appearance wholly destitute of any ...
... carried on without some degree of mutual understanding , still less the more complicated business of social life . We shall meet a little later with certain primitive tribes , which are to all appearance wholly destitute of any ...
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... carry the matter a step further and say that polygamy is the special characteristic of peoples above the lowest and below the highest levels of civilization , for though it occurs among lower savages it is less frequent , and does not ...
... carry the matter a step further and say that polygamy is the special characteristic of peoples above the lowest and below the highest levels of civilization , for though it occurs among lower savages it is less frequent , and does not ...
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Page 290 - Moreover of the children of the strangers that do sojourn among you, of them shall ye buy, and of their families that are with you, which they begat in your land : and they shall be your possession. And ye shall take them as an inheritance for your children after you, to inherit them for a possession; they shall be your bondmen for ever...
Page 215 - For this reason, a man cannot grant anything to his wife, or enter into covenant with her: for the grant would be to suppose her separate existence; and to covenant with her, would be only to covenant with himself...
Page 215 - By marriage, the husband and wife are one person in law: that is, the very being or legal existence of the woman is suspended during the marriage, or at least is incorporated and consolidated into that of the husband; under whose wing, protection, and cover, she performs every thing...
Page 89 - The fathers shall not be put to death for the children, neither shall the children be put to death for the fathers: every man shall be put to death for his own sin.
Page 86 - Lest the avenger of the blood pursue the slayer, while his heart is hot, and overtake him, because the way is long, and slay him; whereas he was not worthy of death, inasmuch as he hated him not in time past.
Page 185 - In childhood a female must be subject to her father, in youth to her husband, when her lord is dead to her sons; a woman must never be independent.
Page 288 - Then his master shall bring him unto the judges ; he shall also bring him to the door, or unto the door-post ; and his master shall bore his ear through with an awl ; and he shall serve him for ever.
Page 289 - Thou shalt furnish him liberally out of thy flock, and out of thy floor, and out of thy winepress : of that wherewith the Lord thy God hath blessed thee thou shalt give unto him.
Page 249 - And he brought forth the people that were therein, and put them under saws, and under harrows of iron, and under axes of iron, and made them pass through the brickkiln: and thus did he unto all the cities of the children of Ammon.
Page 203 - Nuptiae consistere non possunt nisi consentiant omnes ; id est qui coeunt, quorumque in potestate sunt.