evolutionary biology 7
- It is a fallacy that people in society must look to the struggle for existence for progress, as plants and animals did
- Ethical conduct aims to fit as many as possible to survive, not at the survival of the fittest
Thomas Henry Huxley
English biologist and advocate of Darwin's theory (1825 to 1895); author of Evolution and Ethics.
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What Thomas Henry Huxley says most about
happiness 3
- Practising self-restraint and renunciation is not happiness, though it may be something better
- The central task of every human life is finding the right balance between self-assertion and self-restraint
government 2
- Self-restraint, though essential to every society, can ruin it when carried to excess
- Strictly followed, the golden rule would negate law and can be obeyed only under a society that rejects it