 | Herbert Spencer - Economics - 1868 - 544 pages
...therefore, is not an accident, but a necessity. Instead of civilization being artificial, it is a part of nature ; all of a piece with the development of...human race continues, and the constitution of things ' O remains the same, those modifications must end in completeness. As surely as the tree becomes bulky... | |
 | John Fiske - 1874 - 1188 pages
...therefore, is not an accident, but a necessity. Instead of civilization being artificial, it is a part of nature ; all of a piece with the development of...modifications must end in completeness."" As surely as the astronomer can predict the future state of the heavens, the sociologist can foresee that the process... | |
 | John Fiske - Evolution - 1874 - 540 pages
...therefore, is not an accident, but a necessity. Instead of civilization being artificial, it is a part of nature ; all of a piece with the development of...remains the same, those modifications must end in completeness."8 As surely as the astronomer can predict the future state of the heavens, the sociologist... | |
 | John Fiske - Evolution - 1875 - 538 pages
...therefore, is not an accident, but a necessity. Instead of civilization being artificial, it is a part of nature ; all of a piece with the development of...remains the same, those modifications ' must end in completeness."1 As surely as the astronomer can predict the future state of the heavens, the sociologist... | |
 | Herbert Spencer - 1877 - 548 pages
...therefore, is not an accident, Lut a necessity. Instead of civilization being artificial, it is a part of nature ; all of a piece with the development of the embryo or the ur.folding of a flower. The modifications mankind have undergone, and are still undergoing, result... | |
 | 1878 - 588 pages
...but a growth ; and that civilization, therefore, is not an artificial thing, but a part of Nature — of a piece with the development of the embryo, or the unfolding of a flower. Manufacturing morals, we are told, is as unscientific as manufacturing worlds ; while social progress... | |
 | Walter Richard Cassels - 1879 - 628 pages
...therefore, is not an accident, but a necessity. Instead of civilization being artificial, it is a part of nature ; all of a piece with the development of...things remains the same, those modifications must ond in completeness. As suroly as the tree becomes bulky when it stands alone, and slender if one of... | |
 | George Lacy - Economics - 1888 - 390 pages
...Progress is not an accident but a necessity. Instead of civilisation being artificial, it is a part of nature, all of a piece with the development of the embryo or the unfolding of a flower." After this it is altogether impossible to understand how Mr. Spencer can pretend to believe that the... | |
 | George Lacy - Economics - 1888 - 386 pages
...Progress is not an accident but a necessity. Instead of civilisation being artificial, it is a part of nature, all of a piece with the development of the embryo or tha unfolding of a flower." After this it is altogether impossible to understand how Mr. Spencer can... | |
 | George Washington Julian - United States - 1889 - 340 pages
...but a growth : and that civilization, therefore, is not an artificial thing, but a part of Nature — of a piece with the development of the embryo, or the unfolding of a flower. Manufacturing morals, we are told, is as unscientific as manufacturing worlds ; while social progress... | |
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Progress, therefore, is not an accident, but a necessity. Instead of civilization being artificial, it is a part of nature; all of a piece with the development of the embryo or the unfolding of a flower. The modifications mankind have undergone, and are... 
