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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![II] Morality Based upon Character Now it is this inherent and unchange¬ able character itself that tends to be transmitted to offspring, and this being the case, there can be no progressive improve¬ ment in character without some selective agency tending to such improvement. By means of a general discussion of the nature and origin of Character, I have else¬ where shown that there is no proof of any real advance in it during the whole historical period.* I show later on what the required selective agency is, and how it will come into action automatically when, and not until, our social system is so reformed as to afíord suitable condi¬ tions. {See Chapter XVI.) * See Character and Life, edited by P. L- Parker, pp. 19-31^ (Williams and Norgate; November, 1912.) 7](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b18022121_0020.JP2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
