Darwinism and Race Progress

Darwinism and Race Progress

In 1890 I gave a lecture to the Edinburgh Health Society, which appeared as No.2 of their Eleventh Series. Its title is The Importance of Ideals of Health, Beauty, etc., in Race Progress. Much the same thesis considerably expanded was given by me in the form of three Milroy Lectures to the Royal College of Physicians of London in March, 1894, and appeared at the time almost verbatim in the Lancet. The present volume contains these lectures[viii] somewhat arranged to suit a less technically instructed audience. I am indebted to my colleague, Professor Richards, for his kindness and care in revising the proofs. [ix] [1] DARWINISM AND RACE PROGRESS. In the history of the world, nations have arisen from comparative obscurity, have occupied positions of eminence and power, and have then sunk into obscurity again. The Egyptians, who built their pyramids and temples by the hands of the peoples they had conquered in war and enslaved, were themselves conquered by Greeks; and these conquerors, at first ignorant and savage, developed on the bases of Eastern and Egyptian civilisation to a point never before reached. But the Greeks in their turn were replaced by the younger Latin race, who were also at first less civilised than the nations they conquered.[2] The Romans then developed and established an empire, which men believed would be everlasting, but it, too, disappeared, to give place to the Teutonic states of modern Europe. So strikingly alike in their progression have been the histories of the peoples of the past that it is quite a commonplace to hear the life of a nation compared to that of a man as being a history of growth, maturity and decay. ......Buy Now (To Read More)

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Ebook Number: 45992
Author: Haycraft, John Berry
Release Date: Jun 15, 2014
Format: eBook
Language: English