Social Environment and Moral Progress
by Alfred Russel Wallace
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About this eBook
- Author
- Wallace, Alfred Russel, 1823-1913
- Credits
- Produced by MWS, Adrian Mastronardi, Michael Zeug, Lisa Reigel, and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at www.pgdp.net, in celebration of Distributed Proofreaders' 15th Anniversary, using images generously made available by The Internet Archive/Canadian Libraries.
- Language
- English
- LoC Class
- HM: Social sciences: Sociology
- Subject
- Social ethics
- Category
- Text
- Project Gutenberg
- eBook-No. 50289
- Release Date
- October 23, 2015
- Copyright
- Public domain in the USA.
Contents
- 1.Untitled
- 2.Untitled
- 3.Untitled
- 4.Social Environment and Moral Progress
- 5.Untitled
- 6.Contents
- 7.Untitled
- 8.PART I.—HISTORICAL — CHAPTER I INTRODUCTORY
- 9.CHAPTER II MORALITY AS BASED UPON CHARACTER
- 10.CHAPTER III PERMANENCE OF CHARACTER
- 11.CHAPTER IV PERMANENCE OF HIGH INTELLECT
- 12.CHAPTER V SPEECH AND WRITING AS PROOFS OF INTELLIGENCE
- 13.CHAPTER VI SAVAGES NOT MORALLY INFERIOR TO CIVILISED RACES
- 14.CHAPTER VII A SELECTIVE AGENCY NEEDED TO IMPROVE CHARACTER
- 15.CHAPTER VIII ENVIRONMENT DURING THE NINETEENTH CENTURY
- 16.CHAPTER IX INSANITARY DWELLINGS AND LIFE-DESTROYING TRADES
- 17.CHAPTER X ADULTERATION, BRIBERY, AND GAMBLING
- 18.CHAPTER XI OUR ADMINISTRATION OF "JUSTICE" IS IMMORAL
- 19.CHAPTER XII INDICATIONS OF INCREASING MORAL DEGRADATION — Increase of Suicide
- 20.PART II.—THEORETICAL — CHAPTER XIII NATURAL SELECTION AMONG ANIMALS — Lamarckism and Darwinism—How they Differ — Natural Selection as the Essential Factor in the Origin of Species — Rapid Increase of All Organisms — Natural Selection, or Survival of the Fittest
- 21.CHAPTER XIV SELECTION AS MODIFIED BY MIND
- 22.CHAPTER XV THE LAWS OF HEREDITY AND ENVIRONMENT — Some Light on the Problem of Evil
- 23.CHAPTER XVI MORAL PROGRESS THROUGH A NEW FORM OF SELECTION — Eugenics, or Race Improvement through Marriage — Free Selection in Marriage — Social Reform and Over-population — The Future Status of Woman
- 24.CHAPTER XVII HOW TO INITIATE AN ERA OF MORAL PROGRESS — The Root-cause and the Remedy
- 25.Index
- 26.Untitled
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