Evolution and Ethics and Other Essays
Evolution and Ethics and Other Essays
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Originally published in 1896, with chapters on: Evolution and Ethics: Prologomena (1894) Evolution and Ethics (1893) Science and Morals (1886) Capital - The Mother of Labor (1890) Social Diseases and Worse Remedies (1891).
The latter chapter includes: Struggle for Existence in Human Society, Letters to the Times, Legal Opinions, and The Articles of War of the Salvation Army. This section discusses William Booth (the founder of the Salvation Army) and his views extensively, along with evolutionary principles and views toward ethics, science and the role of taxes and education, and an advanced view of capital and labor.
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And if natural selection, with artificial to help it, will produce better animals and better men than the present, and fit them better to the conditions of existence, why, let it work, say we, to the top of its bent There is still room enough for improvement. Only let us hope that it always works for good: if not, the divergent lines on Darwin's lithographic diagram of "Transmutation made Easy," ominously show what small deviations from the straight path may come to in the end.
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Evolution and Ethics and Other Essays,Thomas Henry Huxley,University Press of the Pacific,1410203549,Essays,Ethics & Moral Philosophy,Life Sciences - Evolution,Science,Science/Mathematics
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