Social evolution / by Benjamin Kidd.

  • Benjamin Kidd
Date:
1906
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    INDEX Aborigines, gradual disappearance of, 47-49, 59, 308 virtues and vices of civilisation equally fatal to, 48 conditions of progress can have no rational sanction for, 67 religious ideas of, 106-110 mental capacity of, 273, 277-280 Aborigines of Tasmania (Roth), 107 Africa, progress of tribes in, 42 disappearance of natives in South, 47 deportation of negroes to their original home in, 52 partition of, amongst European powers, 328 Agnosticism, change in popular views on, 16 Algeria, French work in, and gain to civilisation, 324 Allen, Grant, explanation of develop- ment of religion, 22 chief reformers have not come from the masses, 183 on the idealism of Celtic races, 282 n. Altruism, most prominent feature in Christianity, 151, 188, 247, 302 Christianity involved highest con- ception of, 151, 152 provoked the Roman persecution of Christians, 153 liberated into practical life, 157 function of, in Roman Empire, 158 Is it unfavourable to civilisation ? 159 evidences of its development, 161- 165, 180, 181-184 of present day contrasted with callousness of ancients, 165 strongest amongst most vigorous people, 166 essential to social development, 186, 188, 318 H. Spencer's theory of ti-ansmission of, 190, 295 Altruism, impelling force in English political life, 203 and in the whole of our Western civilisation, 247 explanation of practice of, by those who profess disbelief in religion, 242-244 Ambition, insatiable, in all ranks, 56 man's strongest characteristic, 263 America, expansion of towns in, 8 protests in, against older school of political economy, 23 extermination of the Red Indians in, 48, 49, 67 opinions of the masses in, on exist- ing social conditions, 75 revolt of labour in, 184 intermixture of races in, 280 Anabolism, 291 Anarchy, doctrines of, 78 as a form of socialism, 208 Ancestor worship, supposed develop- mentofreligious beliefs from, 22,86 the religion of early Greeks and Romans, 111 Ancient Law (Maine), 54, 122, 146 Anglo-Saxon race, extension of bound- aries of, 46 humanitarian principles of, 47 character of the, 46, 55, 303, 329 and extermination of inferior races, 47, 59 aptitude for action rather than for trade, 55 energy of, 57 increase in numbers of, 284 political genius, 303, 305 Animals, liumauity to, 164, 303 Society for Prevention of Cruelty to, 164 Antagonism of individual interests and those of social organism, 66, 193, 288, 295 attempt to reconcile them, 294
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