The descent of man, and selection in relation to sex / by Charles Darwin.

  • Darwin, Charles, 1809-1882.
Date:
1888
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    used by animals—Abstraction, Sell-consciousness—Language —Sense of beauty—Belief in God, spiritual agencies, super- Btitions 65 CHAPTEK IV. COKPAEISON OJT THE AIeNTAL PoWERS OF MaN AND THE LoWEn Animals—continued. The moral sense—Fundamental proposition—The qualities of social animals—Origin of sociability—Struggle between opposed instincts—Man a social animal—The more enduring social in- stincts conquer other less persistent instincts—The social virtues alone regarded by savages—The self-regarding virtues acquired at a later stage of development—The importance of the judg- ment of the members of the same community on conduct— Transmission of moral tendencies—Summary . 97 CHAPTEE V. On the Development op the Intellectual and Moral Faculties during Primeval and Civilised Times. Advancement of the intellectual powers through natural selec- tion—Importance of imitation—Social and moral faculties— Their development within the limits of the same tribe—Natural selection«as aflecting civilised nations—Evidence that civilised nations were once barbarous . ... 127 CHAPTER VI. On THE Affinities and Genealogy of Man. Position of man in the animal series—The natural system genea- logical—Adaptive characters of slight value—Various smaU points of resemblance between man and the Quadrumana— Eank of man in the natural system—Birthplace and antiquity of man—Absence of fossil connecting-links—Lower stages in the genealogy of man, as inferred, firstly from his afBnities and secondly from his structure—Early androgynous condition of the Vertebrata—Conclusion ..... 146 CHAPTER VII. On the Races op Man. The nature and value of specific characters—^Application to the races of man—Arguments in favour of, and opposed to, ranking the so-called races of man as distinct species—Sub-species— ]iIonogenists and polygenists—Convergence of character —