Excerpt from Darwinism and Politics: With Two Additional Essays on Human Evolution
It may perhaps obviate some objections if I state here in one sentence what my main thesis is, although indeed I should have thought that it admitted of no misunderstanding. In the essay entitled Darwinism and Politics, now reprinted with a few verbal alterations, I seek to prove that The theory of Natural Selection (in the form in which alone it can properly be applied to human society) lends no support to the political dogma of Laissez faire. the second and third essays, which are now added to the original essay, deal with the parenthetic clause, and attempt to answer the question: In what form, if in any, can the theory of Natural Selection properly be applied to the intellectual, moral and social development of man? The second essay is a criticism of the last chapter of Mr. A. R. Wallace's Darwinism, and has already appeared In the Westminster Review. The third has been suggested by some "Anti-evolutionist" objections of Dr. Emil Reich. It is, I think, always convenient, and especially in a brief treatment of a subject, to have definite objections to deal with and to use a dialectic method instead of the formal exposition more appropriate to an elaborate and systematic treatise.
A critic in the Academy complains that he cannot grasp the exact object of my little book.
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