Social Diseases and Worse Remediesand New York, Macmillan and Company, 1891 - 148 Seiten |
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Social Diseases and Worse Remedies: Letters to the Times on Mr. Booth's ... Thomas Henry Huxley Keine Leseprobe verfügbar - 2017 |
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Seite 21 - As among these, so among primitive men, the weakest and stupidest went to the wall, while the toughest and shrewdest, those who were best fitted to cope with their circumstances, but not the best in any other sense, survived.
Seite 136 - WE believe that it is the privilege of all believers to be " wholly sanctified " and that " their whole spirit and soul and body " may be " preserved blameless unto the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ
Seite 145 - There are three persons in the Godhead ; the Father, the Son, and the Holy Ghost ; and these three are one God, the same in substance, equal in power and glory.
Seite 146 - We believe in the immortality of the soul; in the resurrection of the body; in the general judgment at the end of the world; in the eternal happiness of the righteous; and in the everlasting punishment of the wicked.
Seite 33 - I take it to be a mere plain truth that, throughout industrial Europe, there is not a single large manufacturing city which is free from a vast mass of people whose condition is exactly that described; and from a still greater mass who, living just on the edge of the social swamp, are liable to be precipitated into it by any lack of demand for their produce.
Seite 146 - We believe that the Lord Jesus Christ has, by His suffering and death, made an atonement for the whole world, so that whosoever will may be saved. 7. We believe that repentance towards God, faith in our Lord Jesus Christ, and regeneration by the Holy Spirit, are necessary to Salvation.
Seite 64 - Booth tells us, with commendable frankness, that " it is primarily and mainly for the sake of saving the soul that I seek the salvation of the body
Seite 43 - That the suffrage of the majority is by no means a scientific test of social good and evil is unfortunately too true ; but, in practice, it is the only test we can apply and the refusal to abide by it means anarchy. The purest despotism that ever existed is as much based upon that will of the majority (which is usually submission to the will of a small minority) as the freest republic. Law is the expression of the opinion of the majority, and it is law, and not mere opinion, because the many are...
Seite 18 - ... fired from a mortar ; and the sinking half of that course is as much a part of the general process of evolution as the rising. From the point of view of the moralist the animal world is on about the same level as a gladiator's show. The creatures are fairly well treated, and set to fight — whereby the strongest, the swiftest, and the cunningest live to fight another day. The spectator has no need to turn his thumbs down, as no quarter is given. He must admit that the skill and training displayed...
Seite 31 - ... decency is abolished, and the most ordinary conditions of healthful existence are impossible of attainment ; in which the pleasures within reach are reduced to brutality and drunkenness; in which the pains accumulate at compound interest in the shape of starvation, disease, stunted development, and moral degradation ; in which the prospect of even steady and honest industry is a life of unsuccessful battling with hunger, rounded by a pauper's grave.