The world only grows better, even in the moderate degree in which it does grow better, because people wish that it should, and take the right steps to make it Iwttrr. Evolution is not a force, but a process; not a cause, but a law. Studies in Modernism - Page 361by Alfred Fawkes - 1913 - 468 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Education - 1920 - 706 pages
...It is quite as indispensable as any other of them. Progress is not automatic. . . . The world grows better because people wish that it should, and take the right steps to make it better." Professor Todd has shown conclusively that it is possible to work out concrete tests of progress. Some... | |
 | Georg von Giźycki - Ethics - 1889 - 324 pages
...deep slumber for the space of a generation, we should awake to find ourselves in a greatly improved state." The world only grows better, even in the moderate degree in which it does, because people wish that it should and take the right steps to make it better. There is not only a... | |
 | Georg von Gizycki - Ethics - 1889 - 592 pages
...deep slumber for the space of a generation, we should awake to find ourselves in a greatly improved state." The world only grows better, even in the moderate degree in which it does, because people wish that it should and take the right steps to make it better. There is not only a... | |
 | John Angus MacVannel - Will - 1896 - 114 pages
...p. 35. Merely to trace the changing phases of any reality does not in itself explain the reality. " Evolution is not a force, but a process ; not a cause, but a law." 8 The mode in •which property has been appropriated, as well as the objects appropriated, may vary... | |
 | Science - 1904 - 596 pages
...evolution, yet, as we have often insisted and again repeat, this time in the words of Mr. John Morley, 'evolution is not a force, but a process; not a cause, but a law.' Ideas may be forces, purposes may be causes, and intelligent cooperation and organized effort may minister... | |
 | Lester Frank Ward - Sociology - 1903 - 646 pages
...that if we were all to be cast into a deep slumber for the space of a generation, we should arouse to find ourselves in a greatly improved social state....that it should, and take the right steps to make it Iwttrr. Evolution is not a force, but a process; not a cause, but a law. It explains the source and... | |
 | Science - 1904 - 622 pages
...evolution, yet. as we have often insisted and again repeat, this time in the words of Mr. John Morley, ' evolution is not a force, but a process; not a cause, but a law.' Ideas may be forces, purposes may be causes, and intelligent cooperation and organized effort may minister... | |
 | Louis Henry Jordan - Religion - 1905 - 704 pages
...Naturalism, proceeding originally in opposite directions, completely altered their courses. Accord1 "Evolution is not a force, but a process ; not a cause, but a law." (Mr. John Morley, On Compromise. London, 1874.) 2 Cp. John Arnott Maceulloch, Comparative Theology,... | |
 | Lester Frank Ward - Literary Criticism - 1906 - 428 pages
...that if we were all to be cast into a deep slumber for the space of a generation, we should arouse to find ourselves in a greatly improved social state....should, and take the right steps to make it better. — JOHN MORLEY. In the eleventh chapter of Pure Sociology it is shown that the most important principle... | |
 | Samuel Cox, Sir William Robertson Nicoll, James Moffatt - Bible - 1908 - 584 pages
...spontaneous elements. It is quite as indispensable as any other of them, if indeed it be not more so. ... The world only grows better, even in the moderate...degree in which it does grow better, because people will that it should, and take the right steps to make it better." ***** John i. 47 : Jesus saw Nathanael... | |
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