An edition of The destiny of man
(1884)
The destiny of man
viewed in the light of his origin
by John Fiske
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Table of 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 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.
Edition Notes
An address before the Concord school of philosophy, 1884.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 120-121).
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