Social environment and moral progress / by Alfred Russel Wallace.
- Alfred Russel Wallace
- Date:
- 1913
Licence: Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International (CC BY-NC 4.0)
Credit: Social environment and moral progress / by Alfred Russel Wallace. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![xvii] An Era of Moral Progress That is sound moral teaching. We have been doing the Wrong for the past century, and we have reaped, and are reaping, misery and destruction. It is time that we changed our methods, which are all (as I think I have sufficiently pointed out) fundamentally Wrong, radi¬ cally Unjust, wholly Immoral. We have ourselves created an im¬ moral or unmoral Social Environment. To undo its inevitable results we must re¬ verse our course. We must see that all our economic legislation, all our social reforms, are in the very opposite direction to those hitherto adopted, and that they tend in the direction of one or other of the four fundamental remedies I have suggested. In this way only can we hope to change our existing immoral environ¬ ment into a moral one, and initiate a new era of Moral Progress. In Chapters XIII to XVI I have shown that the well-established laws of Evolu¬ tion as they reaUy apply to mankind are all favourable to the advance of true Civilisation and of Morality. Our exist¬ ing competitive and antagonistic Social System alone neutralises their beneficent 157](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b18022121_0170.JP2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
