 | 1871 - 630 pages
...high degree probable — namely, that any animal whatever, endowed with well-marked social instincts, would inevitably acquire a moral sense or conscience, as soon as its intellectual powers had become as well developed, or nearly as well developed, as in man. For, firstly, the social... | |
 | New Church gen. confer - 1871 - 644 pages
...instincts. Hence Mr. Darwin says :— " Any animal whatever, endowed with well-marked social instincts, would inevitably acquire a moral sense or conscience as soon as its intellectual powers had become as well developed, or nearly as well developed, as in man." The argument is peculiar:... | |
 | Arminianism - 1871 - 1202 pages
...all." Mr. Darwin thinks that " any animal whatever, endowed with well-marked social instincts, wonld inevitably acquire a moral sense or conscience as soon as its intellectual powers had become as well developed, or nearly as well developed, as in man." * In enunciating this... | |
 | English literature - 1871 - 608 pages
...quote the following assertion : — ' Any animal whatever, endowed with well-marked social instincts, would inevitably acquire a moral sense or conscience, as soon as its intellectual powers had become as well developed, or nearly as well developed, as in man' (vol. ip 71). This is... | |
 | 1877 - 506 pages
...probabilities, and he lays down the following proposition as seeming in a high degree probable, namely, " That any animal whatever, endowed with well-marked social...moral sense or conscience, as soon as its intellectual powers had become as well, or nearly as well, developed, as in man." Now before we can discuss that... | |
 | 1905 - 1004 pages
...not the mysterious gift of unkuown origin which it was for Kant. •"Any animal whatever," he says, "endowed with well-marked social instincts, the parental...would inevitably acquire a moral sense, or conscience [Kant's 'knowledge of duty'], as soon as its intellectual powers had become as well, or nearly as well,... | |
 | American periodicals - 1871 - 860 pages
...the following assertion : — '• Any animal whatever, endowed with •well-marked social instincts, would inevitably acquire a moral sense or conscience, as soon as its intellectual powers had become as well developed, or nearly as well developed, as in man " (vol. ip 71). This is... | |
 | American literature - 1871 - 808 pages
...high degree probable — namely, that any animal whatever, endowed with well-marked social instincts, would inevitably acquire a moral sense or conscience, as soon as its intellectual powers had become as well developed, or nearly as well developed, as in man." For, firstly, the social... | |
 | Great Britain - 1883 - 934 pages
...thought it probable in a high degree that any animal whatever, endowed with well-marked social instincts, would inevitably acquire a moral sense or conscience, as soon as its intellectual powers had become as well developed, or nearly as well developed, as man's. DAMON. I have the greatest... | |
 | English literature - 1871 - 606 pages
...quote the following assertion : — ' Any animal whatever, endowed with well-marked social instincts, would inevitably acquire a moral sense or conscience, as soon as its intellectual powers had become as well developed, or nearly as well developed, as in man' (vol. ip 71). This is... | |
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The following proposition seems to me in a high degree probable — namely, that any animal whatever endowed with well-marked social instincts, the parental and filial affections being here included, would inevitably acquire a moral sense or conscience,... 
