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- Frontmatter
- PREFACE
- Contents
- 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 Civilisation
- XIII Methods of Political Development, and Elimination of Warfare
- XIV End of tie Working of Natural Selection upon Man. Throwing off the Brute-Inheritance
- XV The Message of Christianity
- XVI The Question as to a Future Life
- References
- Frontmatter
- PREFACE
- Contents
- 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 Civilisation
- XIII Methods of Political Development, and Elimination of Warfare
- XIV End of tie Working of Natural Selection upon Man. Throwing off the Brute-Inheritance
- XV The Message of Christianity
- XVI The Question as to a Future Life
- References
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- The Destiny of ManViewed in the Light of his Origin, pp. 120 - 121Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2009First published in: 1884