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“Social progress means a checking of the cosmic process at every step and the substitution for it of another, which may be called the ethical process; the end of which is not the survival of those who may happen to be the fittest, in respect of the whole of the conditions which obtain, but of those who are ethically the best.”

May Mean Ends Whole Happens Social Process Steps Progress Conditions Survival Ethical Cosmic Every Step Social Progress Substitution

Book:The Major Prose of Thomas Henry Huxley

Source: The Major Prose of Thomas Henry Huxley

“Ethical religion affirms the continuity of progress toward moral perfection. It affirms that the spiritual development of the human race cannot be prematurely cut off, either gradually or suddenly; that every stone of offence against which we stumble is a stepping-stone to some greater good; that, at the end of days, if we choose to put it so, or, rather, in some sphere beyond the world of space and time, all the rays of progress will be summed and centred in a transcendent focus.”

“Ethical progress is the only cure for the damage done by scientific progress.”

Done Progress Cures Damage Ethical Scientific Progress

Book:Imagined World

Source: Imagined World

“I take the ethical truths to be the stable elements that emerge out of ethical progress and that are retained under further ethical progress.”

Progress Elements Ethical Stable

Author:Philip Kitcher