Morals in Evolution: A Study in Comparative Ethics, Part 1 |
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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 298 - And if a man smite his servant, or his maid, with a rod, and he die under his hand; he shall be surely punished. Notwithstanding, if he continue a day or two, he shall not be punished: for he is his money.
Page 203 - She openeth her mouth with wisdom; And the law of kindness is on her tongue. She looketh well to the ways of her household. And eateth not the bread of idleness. Her children rise up, and call her blessed; Her husband also, and he praiseth her, saying: Many daughters have done worthily, But thou excellest them all.
Page 195 - By a girl, by a young woman, or even by an aged one, nothing must be done independently, even in her own house." "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 225 - 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 97 - 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 300 - 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 225 - 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 298 - 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 88 - If a man has struck a gentleman's daughter and caused her to drop what is in her womb, he shall pay ten shekels of silver for what was in her womb. 210. If that woman has died, one shall put to death his daughter.
Page 299 - Thou shalt not deliver unto his master the servant which is escaped from his master unto thee : he shall dwell with thee, even among you, in that place which he shall choose in one of thy gates, where it liketh him best: thou shalt not oppress him.