Morals in Evolution: A Study in Comparative Ethics, Part 1Henry Holt & Company, 1906 - Ethics, Evolutionary |
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... individuals who best responded to the circumstances in which they were placed from time to time would tend to survive in the largest numbers . The physical structure best suited to give these responses would thus be perpetuated , and ...
... individuals who best responded to the circumstances in which they were placed from time to time would tend to survive in the largest numbers . The physical structure best suited to give these responses would thus be perpetuated , and ...
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... individual organism , without the formation of the idea of a purpose at any single point in the whole history , certain funda- mental purposes are , nevertheless , served , and the conditions which secure that they should be served are ...
... individual organism , without the formation of the idea of a purpose at any single point in the whole history , certain funda- mental purposes are , nevertheless , served , and the conditions which secure that they should be served are ...
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... individual in all their detail . Yet nevertheless they rest upon a hereditary basis which has grown up under those same conditions which we have already seen laying down and fixing the structure which determines reflex action . It is ...
... individual in all their detail . Yet nevertheless they rest upon a hereditary basis which has grown up under those same conditions which we have already seen laying down and fixing the structure which determines reflex action . It is ...
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... individual which , upon the principles laid down by the biologists , will determine the growth of that structure upon which reflex action and instinct alike depend . If we personify Natural Selection , we may say that what it has in ...
... individual which , upon the principles laid down by the biologists , will determine the growth of that structure upon which reflex action and instinct alike depend . If we personify Natural Selection , we may say that what it has in ...
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... individual itself may operate . This brings us accordingly to a new factor in the regulation of behaviour . When a young chick has emerged from the egg it will peck readily , and on the whole with surprising accuracy , at any small ...
... individual itself may operate . This brings us accordingly to a new factor in the regulation of behaviour . When a young chick has emerged from the egg it will peck readily , and on the whole with surprising accuracy , at any small ...
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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.