 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray IV, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - English literature - 1891 - 580 pages
...does not hesitate to declare, and we agree with him, is in the long run, futile.* He falls back on ' the experiences of utility organized and consolidated through all past generations of the human race' whereby we have attained, in his view, to ' certain faculties of moral intuition.' Hence, with the... | |
 | Robert Hall Baynes - 1880 - 674 pages
...organisms." According to Spencer, " revealed religion is impossible," and moral truths and feelings but "the experiences of utility, organized and consolidated through all past generations of the [human race, ,which have been producing corresponding nervous modifications, and which, by continued transmission... | |
 | Henry Allon - English periodicals - 1878 - 694 pages
...and inherited, they have come to be quite independent of conscious experience. . . . I believe that the experiences of utility, organized and consolidated through all past generations of the race, have been producing nervous modifications, which by continued transmission and accumulation have... | |
 | Christianity - 1878 - 616 pages
...account for the fact of the distinction, but for the meaning we now attach to it. Even admitting that ' the experiences of utility organized and consolidated through all past generations of the race have been producing nervous modifications which by continual transmission and accumulation have... | |
 | Richard Acland Armstrong - 1882 - 900 pages
...are so only because, by a law of inheritance, the experiences of our ancestors have been organised in our brains. The social environment, by its constant...Spencer's own words, " The experiences of utility organised and consolidated through all past generations of the human race have been producing corresponding... | |
 | Religion - 1882 - 896 pages
...are so only because, by a law of inheritance, the experiences of our ancestors have been organised in our brains. The social environment, by its constant...Spencer's own words, " The experiences of utility organised and consolidated through all past generations of the human race have been producing corresponding... | |
 | George Ticknor Curtis - Creation - 1887 - 606 pages
...philosophy of the moral sense ? KOSMICOS. Let me read you what Spencer says : "I believe that the experience of utility, organized and consolidated through all past generations of the human race, has been producing corresponding modifications which, by continued transmission and accumulation, have... | |
 | Joseph Maximilian Hark - Evolution - 1888 - 308 pages
...limb by wild beasts without ever letting an expression of pain escape them ; — I too feel that ' ' the experiences of utility, organized and consolidated through all past generations of the human race," are inadequate to satisfactorily explain the facts. With Mr. Darwin I ask, "Why should a man feel that... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray IV, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - English literature - 1891 - 576 pages
...does not hesitate to declare, and we agree with him, is in the long run, futile.* He falls back on 'the experiences of utility organized and consolidated through all past generations of the human race ' whereby we have attained, in his view, to ' certain faculties of moral intuition.' Hence, with the... | |
 | Herbert Spencer - Ethics - 1895 - 640 pages
...form of thought, apparently quite independent of experience ; so do I believe that the exl»cricnccs of utility organized and consolidated through all past generations of the human race, have brcn prxlii' inr^ corresponding nervous modifications, which, by continued transmission and accumulation,... | |
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The experiences of utility, organized and consolidated through all past generations of the human race, have been producing corresponding nervous modifications, which, by continued transmission and accumulation, have become in us certain faculties of moral... 
