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If individuality has no play, society does not advance; if individuality breaks out of all bounds, society perishes.

If individuality has no play, society does not advance; if individuality breaks out of all bounds, society perishes.

Thomas Huxley
Play, Individuality, Progress
Thomas Henry Huxley (1872). “More Criticisms on Darwin, and Administrative Nihilism”, p.76

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.

Thomas Huxley
Mean, Survival, Progress
Thomas Henry Huxley (1997). “The Major Prose of Thomas Henry Huxley”, p.327, University of Georgia Press

Material advancement has its share in moral and intellectual progress. Becky Sharp's acute remark that it is not difficult to be virtuous on ten thousand a year has its applications to nations; and it is futile to expect a hungry and squalid population to be anything but violent and gross.

Thomas Huxley
Years, Intellectual, Progress
Thomas Henry Huxley (1882). “Science and Culture: And Other Essays”

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