Explain What Huxley Means When He Says, "Cosmic Evolution May

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Essay

Explain what Huxley means when he says, "Cosmic evolution may teach us how the good and the evil tendencies of man may have come about; but, in itself, it is incompetent to furnish any better reason why what we call good is preferable to what we call evil than we had before."

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Definitions:

Substitution Effect

The change in consumption patterns due to a change in the relative prices of goods.

Marginal Product

The increase in output that results from employing one more unit of a factor of production.

Income Effect

How an individual's or economic income shift influences the demand for goods or services.

Substitution Effect

The substitution effect describes the change in consumption patterns due to a change in the relative prices of goods, leading consumers to substitute one good for another.