CHAPTER II
Harmony
in the
Cosmic Process
in the
Cosmic Process
MR. HUXLEY, in his address at Oxford in 1893, says that "the cosmic process has no sort of relation to moral ends." In commenting upon this Mr. Fiske says: "Most assuredly survival of the fittest, as such, has no sort of relation to moral ends."[1]
That Mr. Huxley should fall into this error is not surprising, but that Mr. Fiske should pass over its fatal conclusions without bringing to the surface its self-stultifying fallacy is difficult to understand.
The position is rightly taken that, if the moral motive is not found in Evolution, it does not exist in its products,
- ↑ "Through Nature to God," page 77.
