...is concerned there are other agencies more important. For the moral qualities are advanced, either directly or indirectly, much more through the effects...habit, the reasoning powers, instruction, religion, &c., than through natural selection; though to this latter agency the social instincts, which afforded...

...is concerned there are other agencies more important. For the moral qualities are advanced, either directly or indirectly, much more through the effects...habit, the reasoning powers, instruction, religion, &c., than through natural selection; though to this latter agency may be safely attributed the social...

...or nearly as well developed as in man." For he further recognized that human morality arose "either directly or indirectly much more through the effects of habit, the reasoning power, instruction, religion, etc., than through natural selection." But he could not forbear to add...

...and even still is, there are agencies more important. For the moral qualities are advanced, either directly or indirectly, much more through the effects of habit, the reasoning powers, religion &c., than through natural selection. — CHARLES DARWIN, The Descent of Man 8-2 Slow changes...

...nature is concerned there are other agencies more important. For the more qualities are advanced, either directly or indirectly, much more through the effects...religion, etc., than through natural selection; though this latter agency may be safely attributed to the social instincts, which afforded the basis for the...

...cultural and moral means. "The highest part of man's nature" has been and is being "advanced, either directly or indirectly, much more through the effects...instruction, religion, etc., than through natural selection." In addition, this noblest part of our nature — our intellect, sympathy, and benevolence — compels...

...most beautiful and most wonderful have been, and are being evolved. The Descent of Man Conclusion ... The main conclusion arrived at in this work, namely, that man is descended from some lowly organised form, will, I regret to think, be highly distasteful to many. But there can hardly be a doubt...

...dissemination of each seed, — and other such events, have all been ordained for some special purpose The main conclusion arrived at in this work, namely that man is descended from some lowly-organised form, will, I regret to think, be highly distasteful to many. But there can hardly...

...sadly noted at the end of The Descent of Man, written a decade after the appearance of On the Origin, 'The main conclusion arrived at in this work, namely that man is descended from some lowly-organised form, will, I regret to think, be highly distasteful to many persons'. 19 And the scientific...

...is concerned there are other agencies more important. For the moral qualities are advanced, either directly or indirectly, much more through the effects...habit, the reasoning powers, instruction, religion, &c., than through natural selection; though to this latter agency may be safely attributed the social...