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The destiny of man, viewed in the light of his origin

x, [11]-121 pages ; 18 cm · An address before the Concord school of philosophy, 1884 · Includes bibliographical references (pages 120-121) · I. Man's place in nature as affected by the Copernican theory -- II. As affected by Darwinism -- III. On the earth there will never be a higher creature than man -- IV. The origin of infancy -- V. The dawning of consciousness -- VI. Lengthening of infancy and concomitant increase of brain-surface -- VII. Change in the direction of the working of natural selection -- VIII. Growing predominance of the psychical life -- IX. The origins of society and of morality -- X. Improvableness of man -- XI. Universal warfare of primeval men -- XII. First checked by the beginnings of industrial civilization -- XIII. Methods of political development, and elimination of warfare -- XIV. End of the working of natural selection upon man. Throwing off the brute-inheritance -- XV. The message of Christianity -- XVI. The question as to a future life

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