Physics and Politics: Or, Thoughts on the Application of the Principles of "natural Selection" and "inheritance" to Political SocietyC. K. Paul & Company, 1881 - 224 Seiten |
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... Better motives- better impulses , rather - come from a good body : worse motives or worse impulses come from a bad body . A Freewillist may admit as much as a Necessarian that such improved conditions tend to improve human action , and ...
... Better motives- better impulses , rather - come from a good body : worse motives or worse impulses come from a bad body . A Freewillist may admit as much as a Necessarian that such improved conditions tend to improve human action , and ...
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... better , than civilised man . The South American uses the horse which the European brought better than the European . Many races use the rifle - the especial and very complicated weapon of civilised man - better , upon an average , than ...
... better , than civilised man . The South American uses the horse which the European brought better than the European . Many races use the rifle - the especial and very complicated weapon of civilised man - better , upon an average , than ...
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... better creatures , such as that by which they are now perishing . We catch then a first glimpse of patriarchal man , not with any industrial relics of a primitive civilisation , but with some gradually learnt knowledge of the simpler ...
... better creatures , such as that by which they are now perishing . We catch then a first glimpse of patriarchal man , not with any industrial relics of a primitive civilisation , but with some gradually learnt knowledge of the simpler ...
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... better than any other . Civilisation has indeed already gone forward ages beyond the time at which any such description is com- plete . Man , in Homer , is as good at oratory , Mr. Glad- stone seems to say , as he has ever been , and ...
... better than any other . Civilisation has indeed already gone forward ages beyond the time at which any such description is com- plete . Man , in Homer , is as good at oratory , Mr. Glad- stone seems to say , as he has ever been , and ...
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... better of a set of families acknowledging no obedience to any- one , but scattering loose about the world and fighting where they stood . Homer's Cyclops would be powerless against the feeblest band ; so far from its being singular that ...
... better of a set of families acknowledging no obedience to any- one , but scattering loose about the world and fighting where they stood . Homer's Cyclops would be powerless against the feeblest band ; so far from its being singular that ...
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