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" Not only is the mechanistic conception of life compatible with ethics : it seems the only conception of life which can lead to an understanding of the source of ethics" (The Mechanistic Conception of Life, p. "
Varieties of Scientific Experience - Page 54
by Lewis S. Feuer
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Nature, Volume 90

Sir Norman Lockyer - Electronic journals - 1913 - 810 pages
...\Ye seek and enjoy the fellowship of human beings because we have a hereditary impulse so to do. " Not only is the mechanistic conception of life compatible...which can lead to an understanding of the source of ethics." The above quotations will suffice to show that, with regard to the nature of living processes,...
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Nature, Volume 90

Sir Norman Lockyer - Electronic journals - 1913 - 788 pages
...We seek and enjoy the fellowship of human beings because %ve have a hereditary impulse so to do. " Not only is the mechanistic conception of life compatible...which can lead to an understanding of the source of ethics." The above quotations will suffice to show that, with regard to the nature of living processes,...
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The Theosophic Messenger: A Monthly Magazine for the ..., Volume 14, Issues 1-3

Theosophy - 1913 - 1094 pages
...Professor Loeb feels that not only is the mechanistic conception of life compatible with ethics, but it seems the only conception of life which can lead to an understanding of the source of ethics. This of course the scientific understanding of the divine law. To a pure scientist, his science...
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The Mechanistic Conception of Life: Biological Essays

Jacques Loeb - Biology - 1912 - 248 pages
...and the offspring of such mutants may, if numerous enough, lower the ethical status of a community. Not only is the mechanistic conception of life compatible...which can lead to an understanding of the source of ethics. II. THE SIGNIFICANCE OF TROPISMS FOR PSYCHOLOGY II THE SIGNIFICANCE OF TROPISMS FOR PSYCHOLOGY1...
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Popular Science Monthly, Volume 80

Science - 1912 - 660 pages
...and the offspring of such mutants may, if numerous enough, lower the ethical status of a community. Not only is the mechanistic conception of life compatible...conception of life which can lead to an understanding of th% source of ethics. SCIENCE AMONG THE CHINESE. II BY DR. CK EDMUNDS PRESIDENT OF CANTON CHRISTIAN...
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Library Journal, Volume 39, Issue 1

Melvil Dewey, Richard Rogers Bowker, Karl Brown, Charles Ammi Cutter, Bertine Emma Weston, Helen E. Wessells - Libraries - 1914 - 690 pages
...basis and our rules of conduct must be brought into harmony with the results of scientific biology." "Not only is the mechanistic conception of life compatible...which can lead to an understanding of the source of ethics." These are the final words in this first essay. The others deal with such subjects as "The...
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The Meaning of Personal Life

Newman Smyth - Life - 1916 - 402 pages
...of plant-lice in the end of a tube turned to the light. And Professor Loeb hastens to assure us that "not only is the mechanistic conception of life compatible...which can lead to an understanding of the source of ethics" (p. 31). Later on we shall have occasion to inquire how judgments of vital values can be thus...
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Manhood of Humanity: The Science and Art of Human Engineering

Alfred Korzybski - Ethnology - 1921 - 296 pages
...basis and our rules of conduct must be brought into harmony with the results of scientific biology. Not only is the mechanistic conception of life compatible...which can lead to an understanding of the source of ethics." I hope to have proved in this book that scientific ethics is based on natural laws for the...
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The Moral Life and Religion: A Study of Moral and Religious Personality

James Ten Broeke - Ethics - 1922 - 274 pages
...inner life of hopes, wishes, and moral effort "should be amenable to physico-chemical analysis." . . . "It seems the only conception of life which can lead to an understanding of the source of ethics." 123 This author holds that scientific materialism extends to all spheres of knowledge embraced...
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Popular Science Monthly, Volume 80

Science - 1912 - 712 pages
...and the offspring of such mutants may, if numerous enough, lower the ethical status of a community. Not only is the mechanistic conception of life compatible...which can lead to an understanding of the source of ethics. SCIENCE AMONG THE CHINESE. II BY DR. C. K . EDMUNDS PBESIDINT OT CANTON CHRISTIAN COLLEQK •...
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