Social Environment and Moral Progress
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Social Environment and Moral Progress
Contents
PART I.—HISTORICAL
CHAPTER I INTRODUCTORY
CHAPTER II MORALITY AS BASED UPON CHARACTER
CHAPTER III PERMANENCE OF CHARACTER
CHAPTER IV PERMANENCE OF HIGH INTELLECT
CHAPTER V SPEECH AND WRITING AS PROOFS OF INTELLIGENCE
CHAPTER VI SAVAGES NOT MORALLY INFERIOR TO CIVILISED RACES
CHAPTER VII A SELECTIVE AGENCY NEEDED TO IMPROVE CHARACTER
CHAPTER VIII ENVIRONMENT DURING THE NINETEENTH CENTURY
CHAPTER IX INSANITARY DWELLINGS AND LIFE-DESTROYING TRADES
CHAPTER X ADULTERATION, BRIBERY, AND GAMBLING
CHAPTER XI OUR ADMINISTRATION OF "JUSTICE" IS IMMORAL
CHAPTER XII INDICATIONS OF INCREASING MORAL DEGRADATION
Increase of Suicide
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
CHAPTER XIV SELECTION AS MODIFIED BY MIND
CHAPTER XV THE LAWS OF HEREDITY AND ENVIRONMENT
Some Light on the Problem of Evil
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
CHAPTER XVII HOW TO INITIATE AN ERA OF MORAL PROGRESS
The Root-cause and the Remedy
Index
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