Social progress means a checking of the cosmic, process at every step and the substitution for it of another, which may be called the ethical process; the end of which is not the survival of those who may happen to be the fittest, in respect of the whole of the conditions which obtain, but of those who are ethically the best.
Attribution disputed; shown as originally published.
Defining who is ethically best is subjective and open to abuse.
The known is finite, the unknown infinite; intellectually we stand on an islet in the midst of an illimitable ocean of inexplicability. Our business in every g…
I trust that I have now made amends for any ambiguity, or want of fulness, in my previous exposition of that which I hold to be the essence of the Agnostic doc…
For myself I say deliberately, it is better to have a millstone tied round the neck and be thrown into the sea than to share the enterprises of those to whom t…
Seven social sins: politics without principles, wealth without work, pleasure without conscience, knowledge without character, commerce without morality, scien…
I am convinced that the moment is coming when, with its message of eternal, universal values, it will come to the aid of our society. For in these words: 'Thou…
Morals - all correct moral laws - derive from the instinct to survive. Moral behavior is survival behavior above the individual level.