 | Electronic journals - 1879 - 626 pages
...because -the establishment of rules of right conduct on a scientific basis is a pressing need. Now that moral injunctions are losing the authority given...the secularisation of morals is becoming imperative. Few things can happen more disastrous than the decay and death of a regulative system no longer fit,... | |
 | Arthur Cayley Headlam - Religion - 1881 - 552 pages
...work, because the establishment of rules of right conduct on a scientific basis is a pressing need. Now that moral injunctions are losing the authority given by their supposed sacred origin, the secularization of morals is becoming imperative. Few things can happen more disastrous than the decay... | |
 | Natural history - 1887 - 340 pages
...Ethics": " The establishment of rules of right conduct on a scientific basis is a pressing need. Now that moral injunctions are losing the authority given...the secularisation of morals is becoming imperative. Few things can happen more disastrous than the decay and death of a regulative system no longer fit,... | |
 | Art - 1879 - 616 pages
...establishment of rules of right conduct on a scientific basis is a pressing need of the time. " Now that moral injunctions are losing the authority given by their supposed sacred origin, the secularization of morals is becoming imperative. Few things can happen more disastrous than the decay... | |
 | Herbert Spencer - Ethics, Evolutionary - 1879 - 322 pages
...work, because the establishment of rules of right conduct on a scientific basis is a pressing need. Now that moral injunctions are losing the authority given by their supposed sacred origin, the secularization of morals is becoming impei-ative. Few things can happen more disastrous than the decay... | |
 | American literature - 1879 - 940 pages
...general philosophy. Presented in view of the pressing need for " the secularization of morals," now that moral injunctions are "losing the authority given by their supposed sacred origin." Phebaud, AJ Louisa Kirkbride: tale of N^w York. NY, I'. K. Collier, 1879. 528^ p. il. 8°. cl., $^.50;... | |
 | 1879 - 272 pages
...general philosophy. Presented in view of the pressing need for " the secularization of morals," now that moral injunctions are "losing the authority given by their supposed sacred origin." Thebaud, AJ Louisa Kirkbride: tale of Ntw York. NY, PF Collier, 1879. 528 p. il. 8°. cl., $2.50; gilt,... | |
 | 1879 - 690 pages
...basis,' strikes Mr. Spencer as especially urgent at the present moment, when, to use his own words, ' moral injunctions are losing the authority given by their supposed sacred origin.' Those who are already conversant with the general tenour of Mr. Spencer's views, as, indeed, of the... | |
 | Literature - 1880 - 1112 pages
...considers that " the establishment of rules of right conduct on a scientific basis is a pressing need. Now that moral injunctions are losing the authority given by their supposed sacred origin, the secularization of morals is becoming imperative. Few things can happen more disastrous than the decay... | |
 | American literature - 1880 - 798 pages
...horrors through which he has passed in the darkness of the night. Mr. Herbert Spencer sees clearly that " moral injunctions are losing the authority given by their supposed sacred origin ;" | and lest, unhappily, the world * "Nat. Schopf.," p. 652. {"Critiques and Addresses," p. 289. "... | |
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I am the more anxious to indicate in outline, if I cannot complete, this final work, because the establishment of rules of right conduct on a scientific basis is a pressing need. Now, that moral injunctions are losing the authority given by their supposed... 
