Past and future : being a second edition, with addenda, of Saturn's kingdom, or, Fable and fact / by Charles Moore Jessop.

  • Jessop, Charles Moore
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1892
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Credit: Past and future : being a second edition, with addenda, of Saturn's kingdom, or, Fable and fact / by Charles Moore Jessop. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    generations before my time, I should probably have had nothing but a flint axe and an indifferent hut to call my own ; and even then these would be mine only so long as no stronger savage came in my way.” “So that if Society, having—quite gratuitously- done all these things for me, asks me in turn to do something towards its preservation—even if that something is to contribute to the teaching of other men’s children”—Society would not, he concludes, “ be dealing unjustly with me in converting the moral obligation into a legal one.” * Mankind is thus divided into two leading types— the ethical man who cultivates his intellect for the subjugation of self and welfare of his species ; the non-ethical man who cultivates his intellect to in- crease the gratification of self. These two types are combined in varying proportions to produce diversi- ties of character; just as from the simple images first presented to a child’s mind are formed complex and compound complex images. The non-ethical man pure and simple is still to be found in our midst, but owing to the restraints imposed by Society the conditions of warfare are changed; the Savage is veneered; he is found and carries on his depredations, in the form suitable to changed con- ditions, in all classes of life. Such may be called * ‘‘Struggle for Existence,” Nineteenth Century Magazine, for February, 1868.
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