This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1890 edition. Excerpt: ... ae Science jttdice as tbey following confession omme Hegel, j'avais le-nt a l'huinanite line role 'If the benefits received by each individual were proportioned to his inferiority; if, as a consequence, multiplication of the inferior were furthered and multiplication of superiors hindered, progressive ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1890 edition. Excerpt: ... ae Science jttdice as tbey following confession omme Hegel, j'avais le-nt a l'huinanite line role 'If the benefits received by each individual were proportioned to his inferiority; if, as a consequence, multiplication of the inferior were furthered and multiplication of superiors hindered, progressive degradation would result.'--Herbert Spencer. 'And nations sink, or, struggling to be free, Are doomed to flounder on, like wounded whales Tossed on the bosom of a stormy sea.' Wordsworth. THE CONDITIONS OF PROGRESS. Nate.--This essay, placed here because it forms an essential step in the argument, stands exactly as it was written more than three years ago. I mention this, merely to avoid a possible charge of plagiarism from an article by Huxley in the Nineteenth Century for January, 1888. People in general are hopelessly in error about ' Evolution: ' Herbert Spencer himself, for example, especially in his Data of Ethics: all Hegelians; and their offshoots, the Socialists, who found an important argument on a misunderstanding of the evolutionary process (see Essay 3). The sophistical Hegelian teleology which fondly imagines itself to be scientific evolution, is really related to it exactly as Astrology was to Astronomy, i.e. the pseudo-science which makes out all Nature to be impressed with man's importance, to the genuine Science which accepts facts simply and without prejudice as they are. This was written before reading the following confession by Renan (Avenir de Science, xiii.), ' Comme Hegel, j'avais le tort d'attribuer trop affirmativement a l'humanite une role centrale dans l'univers.' That which it most concerns man to know in order to get at the conditions of Progress, is the essential nature of things. And modern Science by following the..
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