Aspects of Social Evolution: First Series: TemperamentsSmith, Elder, & Company, 1904 - 297 pages |
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Acromegaly activity adapted animal appear artist aspect beauty become bodily body capacity cell changes character characteristics Charles Darwin civilisation climatic co-education coarse complex considered Crown 8vo definite delicately disease emotional entoderm environment evidence evolution existence face fact favour feelings GEORGE HENRY LEWES germinal gnomy greater growing growth habits Havelock Ellis healthily healthy heredity human ideals importance increasing individual influence intellectual labour less living Lloyd Morgan lower manly and womanly masculine MATTHEW ARNOLD ment mental mind modern modified nation natural selection navvy necessary northern organisation physical physiognomy portion present primitive feature principle progressive protoplasm race realise relation reproduction response result scientific scum sexual Sir LESLIE STEPHEN social somatic somatic response specialisation structure surroundings survive Syphilis temperamental feature temperaments tend tendency theory tion tissue utilised variability variations vidual whole organism woman women
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Page ii - AMONG the delusions which at different periods have possessed themselves of the minds of large masses of the human race, perhaps the most curious — certainly the least creditable — is the modern soi-disant science of political economy, based on the idea that an advantageous code of social action may be determined irrespectively of the influence of social affection.
Page ii - To promote the increase of natural knowledge, and to forward the application of scientific methods of investigation to all the problems of life, to the best of my ability, in the conviction, which has grown with my growth and strengthened with my strength, that there is no alleviation for the sufferings of mankind except veracity of thought and action, and the resolute facing of the world as it is, when the garment of make-believe by which pious hands have hidden its uglier features is stripped off.
Page 269 - Even the best of modern civilization appears to me to exhibit a condition of mankind which neither embodies any worthy ideal nor even possesses the merit of stability. I do not hesitate to express the opinion that, if there is no hope of a large improvement of the condition of the greater part of the human family ; if it is true that the increase of knowledge, the winning of a greater dominion over Nature, which is its consequence, and the wealth which follows upon that dominion, are to make no difference...
Page 23 - She can act on every internal organ, on every shade of constitutional difference, on the whole machinery of life. Man selects only for his own good : Nature only for that of the being which she tends.
Page 118 - It is highly probable that the Teutonic race of northern Europe is merely a variety of this primitive long-headed type of the stone age; both its distinctive blondness and its remarkable stature having been acquired in the relative isolation of Scandinavia through the modifying influences of environment and of artificial selection.
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