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Evolution may explain good and evil tendencies but gives no better reason to prefer good
Drawn from what Thomas Henry Huxley said
What Thomas Henry Huxley actually said
- Thomas Henry Huxley English biologist and advocate of Darwin's theory (1825 to 1895)
The thief and the murderer follow nature just as much as the philanthropist. Cosmic evolution may teach us how the good and the evil tendencies of man may have come about; but, in itself, it is incompetent to furnish any better reason why what we call good is preferable to what we call evil than we had before.
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↗Evolution and Ethics: Prolegomena and Romanes Lecture (1893-1894)gutenberg.org
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