Social Environment and Moral Progress

Contents

PART I.—HISTORICAL
CHAPTER		PAGE
1.	Introductory	1
2.	Morality as Based upon Character	4
3.	Permanence of Character	8
4.	Permanence of High Intellect	15
5.	Speech and Writing as Proofs of Intelligence	28
6.	Savages Not Morally Inferior to Civilised Races	31
7.	A Selective Agency Needed to Improve Character	36
8.	Environment during the Nineteenth Century	40
9.	Insanitary Dwellings and Life-destroying Trades	47
10.	Adulteration, Bribery, and Gambling	55
11.	Our Administration of "Justice" is Immoral	62
12.	Indications of Increasing Moral Degradation	67
PART II.—THEORETICAL
13.	Natural Selection among Animals	75
14.	Selection as Modified by Mind	93
15.	The Laws of Heredity and Environment	103
16.	Moral Progress through a New Form of Selection	125
17.	How to Initiate an Era of Moral Progress	150
	Index	159

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