Social environment and moral progress / by Alfred Russel Wallace.

  • Alfred Russel Wallace
Date:
1913
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Credit: Social environment and moral progress / by Alfred Russel Wallace. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    XII] Increasing Moral Degradation alternative to starvation. The following are the figures for the last forty - five years for which official data have been published :— Such a table as this, occurring in a country which boasts of its enormous wealth, of its ever-increasing commercial prosperity, of its marvellous advance in science and the arts, and command of natural forces, should, surely, give us pause, and force upon us the conviction that there is something radically wrong in a social system which brings about such terrible evils. And this should be the more certainly seen to be the case because the same 71
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