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IN styling his book “Cosmic Ethics,” Mr. Cave Thomas means to imply that not only in morals as a department of “the wider hygiene,” but throughout the universe, there is but one law of rightness, that of balance, proportion, or the mean. By “mathematical evolution” he desires to signify that evolution is “the becoming of the proportioned,” its goal being “the at-mean-ment of nature.”
Cosmic Ethics; or, the Mathematical Theory of Evolution.
By W. Cave Thomas. Pp. xxii + 296. (London: Smith, Elder, and Co., 1896.)
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B., H. Cosmic Ethics; or, the Mathematical Theory of Evolution. Nature 56, 195 (1897). https://doi.org/10.1038/056195a0
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