Human evolution : an inductive study of man / by G. Rome Hall.

  • Hall, George Rome.
Date:
1903
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Credit: Human evolution : an inductive study of man / by G. Rome Hall. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    PREFACE F all the ethical signs of the age the growth of the spirit of Altruism is probably the most marked ; it is certainly the marked feature of the la^t decade of the past century to all whose minds are neither stagnant through living for self, nor active only in the ability to amass profit and gain. If all progress towards higher and nobler ideals of life start within the personality of men, it follows that the wish for the fulfilment of such must result in alteration of our social forms of existence; since society has continually altered in the past it would be absurd to suppose that it will not do so in the future. The great question for the vital tenth of mankind at present is—^what will be the constitution of the social forms that will evolve from out of our competitive commercial civilisation ? This book is one of many that attempt to answer this question. In the writer’s opinion it is impossible for anyone to answer this question with knowledge founded upon inductive reason- ing except that he has lived the life of the manual labouring classes, now no longer sunk in apathetic servility but awaken- ing to the consciousness of their manhood power, or except