 I do not hesitate to express my opinion that, if there is no hope of a large improvement of the condition of the greater part of the human family; if it is true that the increase of knowledge, the winning of a greater...  Social Evolution - Page 4by Benjamin Kidd - 1894 - 348 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Arthur Cayley Headlam - 1894 - 548 pages
...outspoken as a Nihilist in his dissatisfaction with the existing state of things. " Even the best of our modern civilisations," said he recently, "appears...express the opinion that, if there is no hope of a larger improvement of the condition of the greater part of the human family : if it is true that the... | |
 | 1890 - 956 pages
...!" What can be a stronger condemnation than the following, " Even the best of modern civilizations appears to me to exhibit a condition of mankind which...hesitate to express the opinion that, if there is no bope of a large improvement of the condition of the greater part of the human family ; if it is true... | |
 | Francis Fisher Browne, Scofield Thayer, Waldo Ralph Browne - 1894 - 462 pages
...Huxley with the "dangerous classes"; yet we find him saying: "Even the best of modern civilizations appears to me to exhibit a condition of mankind which...express the opinion, that, if there is no hope of improvement of the condition of the greater part of the human family. ... I should hail the advent... | |
 | William Thomas Stead - 1890 - 766 pages
...repudiates. He says — My aim has been altogether different. Even the best of modern civilizations appear» to me to exhibit a condition of mankind which neither...embodies any worthy ideal nor even possesses the merit of slabilily. I do not hesitate to express the opinion, that, if there is no hope of a large improvement... | |
 | George A. Richardson - 1896 - 472 pages
...you shall not exist." CHAPTER IV. DEVIL TAKE THE HINDMOST. " Even the best of modern civilizations appears to me to exhibit a condition of mankind which...condition of the greater part of the human family ; 1f it is true that the increase of knowledge, the winning of a greater domain over nature which is... | |
 | John White Chadwick - 1897 - 244 pages
...But had he a liberal faith ? Does it look so when he says, " Even the best of modern civilizations appears to me to exhibit a condition of mankind which...ideal nor even possesses the merit of stability"? Does it look so when he continues, " I do not hesitate to express the opinion that, if there is no... | |
 | Thomas Henry Huxley, Leonard Huxley - 1900 - 584 pages
...have become aware that my aim has been altogether different. Even the best of modern civilisations appears to me to exhibit a condition of mankind which...the merit of stability. I do not hesitate to express my opinion that, if there is no hope of a large improvement of the condition of the greater part of... | |
 | Thomas Henry Huxley, Leonard Huxley - 1900 - 586 pages
...have become aware that my aim has been altogether different. Even the best of modern civilisations appears to me to exhibit a condition of mankind which...the merit of stability. I do not hesitate to express my opinion that, if there is no hope of a large improvement of the condition of the greater part of... | |
 | Edward Clodd - 1902 - 278 pages
...who did his best to help the people " than by any other title. Even the best of modern civilisations appears to me to exhibit a condition of mankind which...the merit of stability. I do not hesitate to express my opinion that, if there is no hope of a large improvement of the condition of the greater part of... | |
 | John Marshall Lang - 1902 - 424 pages
...mind. Professor Huxley, who says that he has an abhorrence of sentimental philanthropy, protests, " If there is no hope of a large improvement of the condition of the greater part of the human family, I should hail the advent of some kindly comet which should sweep the whole affair away as a desirable... | |
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