Social Environment and Moral ProgressWallace, Alfred Russel
Philosophy
Social Environment and Moral Progress
Wallace, Alfred Russel
Natural selection; Social ethics
Animals, natural selection among, 75
_Anthropological Review_, 99
Apes, anthropoid, affinity with man, 93
Aquatic forms of life, increase of, 85
Archimedes, 34
Australian aborigines, character of, 33
and Caucasians, 34
Barnardo, Dr., 141
Beaver, 95
Bimana, 94
Brahé, Tycho, 23
Brain as organ of the mind, 94
Bribery, 56
Browning's, Mrs., _Cry of the Children_, 42
Buddha, 8
Capitalism, 152
Caucasians and Australian aborigines, 34
Causes of economic evils, 154
Chambers's _Vestiges of Creation_, 81
Character, definition of, 4
difficulty of knowing good from bad, 5
mental faculties and, 5
morality based upon, 5
not cumulative, 37
of savage races, 32
permanence of, 8
public opinion and, 36
selective agency to improve, 36
subject to variation, 36
transmission of, 4, 7, 36
variability and, 82
Characters, acquired, definition of, 104
acquired, heredity of, 103
innate, 104, 110
heredity of, 110
Chemical trades, evils of, 50
Child labour, evils of, 41, 43
Church, the work of the, 118
Civil law system, 62
Civilisation during 18th century, 40
evolution and, 157
of ancient Egypt, 15, 35
of ancient India, 8
of ancient Mesopotamia, 15
Civilisations, ancient, 112
Classical writers, our indebtedness to, 115
Coal mines, accidents in, 43
child labour in, 43
female workers in, 43
insecurity in, 43
who the, belong to, 45
Commercial system, immorality of our, 55
Companies, Limited Liability, 56
Competition, 154
Conduct, character and, 5
environment and, 6
Confucius, 8
Cook, Captain, opinion of, on natives of Friendly Isles, 32
Co-operation, 154, 160
Criminal law system, 64
Cruciferæ family, increase of, 84
Curr, Mr., opinion of, on Australian aborigines, 33
Cutlery trade, evils of, 50
_Daily Citizen_ quoted, 51, 52
Darwin and heredity, 103
and natural selection, 87, 93, 125
and transference of selection to mind, 99
and variability, 82
on Tahitians, 32
Darwin's _Descent of Man_, 93, 125
_Origin of Species_, 82
theory of Pangenesis, 104
Darwinism and Lamarckism, 78, 81
and variability, 82
objections to, 85, 90
(_See also_ Evolution, Lamarckism, Natural selection, etc.)
Deadly trades, 50
Dell's, J. H., _Dawning Grey_ quoted, 117
_Descent of Man_, Darwin's, 93, 125
Divine influx into man, 92, 115, 119
Divorce, 74
Dutt, Mr. Romesh, quoted, 9
Dwellings, insanitary, 47
Economic advance, evils of, 150
antagonism, 155
brotherhood, 155
evils, causes of, 154
remedies for, 154
Education, effects of, not hereditary, 111, 114
extension of period of, 143
national system of, needed, 146
of the world, 111
Egypt, astronomy in ancient, 18
civilisation of ancient, 15, 35
intellect in ancient, 16
Eighteenth century, stationary epoch, 40, 122
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