Social Progress And the Darwinian Theory a Study of Force As a Factor in Human
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* Darwin's genealogy of morals may conveniently be represented by means of a graphic illustration. At the centre of the process of evolution is the factor of mutual aid, going back on the one side through the social instincts and the parental and filial affections to its cosmic roots of love ; and on the other side, through the desire for happiness and enlightened self-interest to reason and the first dawnings of intelligence in the scale of animal life. From this elementary need of mutual aid ...we may trace the causes of the advance of morality as summed up by Darwin : The approbation of our fellow-men — the strengthen- ing of our sympathies by habit — example and imitation — reason — experience, and even self-interest — in- struction during youth, and religious feelings, ' The result of this evolutionary process, leading up to the moral law, is represented in the accom- panying figure: I The Descent of Man, p, 142. * Idem, p. 153. The Evolution of the Moral Law 295 296 Darwin's Theory of Social Progress "Two things fill my soul with ever new and increasing wonder and awe the oftener and the more continuously I reflect upon them, " said Immanuel Kant, "the starry heavens above me and the moral law within me.
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