Social Environment and Moral ProgressWallace, Alfred Russel
Philosophy
Social Environment and Moral Progress
Wallace, Alfred Russel
Natural selection; Social ethics
Man, affinity of, with anthropoid apes, 93
and marriage, 133
dignity of, 91
Divine influx into, 92, 115, 119
external differences between, and apes, 93
modifies his environment, 95
moral sense in, 91
nature of, stationary, 102
position of, 91
predominance of mind in, 98
preparation of, for progress, 120
selection transferred to mind in, 99
three great races of, 100
triumph of, over Nature, 95, 150
Marriage, 143
freedom of, insisted upon, 128
man and, 133
women and, 133
Mental faculties in formation of character, 5
Mesopotamia, civilisation of ancient, 15
Mind, brain the organ of the, 94
predominance of, in man, 98
selection transferred to, in man, 99
Monier-Williams, Sir M., 11
Monopoly, 155
Moral degradation, indications of, 67
progress, definition of, 1
progress, initiating new era of, 150
progress through new form of selection, 125
sense in man, 91
Morality amongst the ancients, 8
based upon character, 5
based upon human nature, 4
evolution and, 157
in ancient India, 9
no definite advance in, 36
product of environment, 3
savages and, 31
standards of, varying, 2
Morals, definition of, 1
Natural selection, among animals, 75
and evolution, 77
and origin of species, 82
explanation of, 75, 87
modification of, by man, 96, 99
modified by mind, 93
new form of, 125
process of, 112
two modes of, 125
Nineteenth century, environment during, 40
movements during, 122
reaction against forced civilisation during, 41
O'Grady, Mr. S., quoted, 156
Oliver's, Sir T., _Diseases of Occupation_, 53
Organic nature, development of, 109
indivisibility of, 109
_Origin of Species_, Darwin's, essential features of, 82
Origin of species, natural selection essential factor in, 82
Overcrowding, statistics of, 48
Owen, Sir Richard, and man's affinity with apes, 94
_Pall Mall Gazette_, reply to, 76
Pangenesis, theory of, 104
Park, Mungo, 101
Petrie, Prof., quoted, 139
Plato, 8, 116
Poor Law, immorality of the, 65
Population, increase of, laws governing, 141
social reform and, 138
Poverty, 130, 143, 151
Polynesian races, character of, 33
Preventable deaths, responsibility for, 43
Primates, 94
Proctor, Mr. R. A., quoted, 18
Progress, moral, definition of, 1
moral, how to initiate era of, 150
moral, through new form of selection, 125
Prostitution, 73
Pyramid of Gizeh as observatory, 23
purpose of, 17
structure of, 19
Quadrumana, 94
Rawlinson, 16
Reade's, _Martyrdom of Man_, 113
"Recession to mediocrity," heredity and, 38
Religious conceptions in ancient India, 11
Remedies for economic evils, 154
Reproduction, 142
Rich, dread of, to social reorganisation, 156
Rome, 121
Savage races, morality of, 31
Selection, artificial, 105, 127
free, in marriage, 133
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