The Victorian Sages: An Anthology of ProseAlan Wayland Bellringer, C. B. Jones Dent, 1974 - 241 sider |
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... natural selection in the Origin of Species . He brought together in fact two ideas already prevalent : Malthus's principle that population tends to increase beyond the resources available to it , thus making the struggle for existence ...
... natural selection in the Origin of Species . He brought together in fact two ideas already prevalent : Malthus's principle that population tends to increase beyond the resources available to it , thus making the struggle for existence ...
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... natural selection , by giving a better chance of profitable variations occurring ; and unless profitable variations do occur , natural selection can do nothing . Not that , as I believe , any extreme amount of variability is necessary ...
... natural selection , by giving a better chance of profitable variations occurring ; and unless profitable variations do occur , natural selection can do nothing . Not that , as I believe , any extreme amount of variability is necessary ...
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... Natural Selection , entailing Divergence of Character and the Extinction of less - improved forms . Thus , from the war of nature , from famine and death , the most exalted object which we are capable of conceiving , namely , the ...
... Natural Selection , entailing Divergence of Character and the Extinction of less - improved forms . Thus , from the war of nature , from famine and death , the most exalted object which we are capable of conceiving , namely , the ...
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THE WHIG VIEW OF HISTORY | 35 |
SOCIAL PROBLEMS IN FICTION | 49 |
THE RISE OF SOCIOLOGY | 56 |
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action aristocratic class Arnold assent authority Barbarians bathos beauty become believe better called Carlyle character Church civilisation common condition culture divine doctrine England evil existence eyes F. D. Maurice fact faith feeling force Frederic Harrison Giorgione give habits happiness hope human nature human perfection idea ideal imagination increase individual influence intellectual intelligence J. S. Mill kind labour little Samson living look machinery machines mankind matter Matthew Arnold means middle class mind moral never opinions passion persons Philistines philosophical pleasure poetry political poor Populace powers of sympathy present principle produced progress Protestantism religion religious organisations right reason Samson seemed sense social society sophisms soul speak spirit struggle sweetness and light T. H. Huxley things Thomas Arnold thou thought tion true truth Victorian wealth whole Wilhelm von Humboldt words