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... evolution , we must , by inherent necessity , also accept it as operating in the manner in which , in the long run , it produces the largest and most effective results . throughout the course of human history has been Our attention ...
... evolution , we must , by inherent necessity , also accept it as operating in the manner in which , in the long run , it produces the largest and most effective results . throughout the course of human history has been Our attention ...
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... evolutionary process in our social history is , in short , not in the present at all ... human intellect can never more include within the limits of any theory of ... evolution to hu- man society - made , of necessity , by writers whose ...
... evolutionary process in our social history is , in short , not in the present at all ... human intellect can never more include within the limits of any theory of ... evolution to hu- man society - made , of necessity , by writers whose ...
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Benjamin Kidd. the ascendency of the present in the evolutionary process . It was the rule of the present , and the ... evolution in which this end is being accomplished is one in which all human activities — in economics , poli- tics ...
Benjamin Kidd. the ascendency of the present in the evolutionary process . It was the rule of the present , and the ... evolution in which this end is being accomplished is one in which all human activities — in economics , poli- tics ...
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... human details - those with which the social sciences are concerned , and those in particular which carry us down ... evolution ( cf. Evolution and Ethics , note 20 , p . 114 ) . Now , the observer who has noted the direction in 32 CHAP ...
... human details - those with which the social sciences are concerned , and those in particular which carry us down ... evolution ( cf. Evolution and Ethics , note 20 , p . 114 ) . Now , the observer who has noted the direction in 32 CHAP ...
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... evolutionary hypothesis , and who has perceived the relationship of the conclu- sions which have been reached , to theories and prin- ciples of human society accepted without question in the past , will probably find that there is a ...
... evolutionary hypothesis , and who has perceived the relationship of the conclu- sions which have been reached , to theories and prin- ciples of human society accepted without question in the past , will probably find that there is a ...
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