The Destiny of Man

Klappentext In 1884! American historian and Darwin populariser John Fiske published this book on human progress via evolutionary change. Zusammenfassung American historian John Fiske published in 1884 this discussion of humanity's origin! destiny and place in the universe. A leading populariser of Darwin's theory in the United States! Fiske discusses his views of human progress via evolutionary social change and the harmony between science and religion. Inhaltsverzeichnis Preface; 1. Man's place in nature as affected by the Copernican theory; 2. As affected by Darwinism; 3. On the earth there will never be a higher creature than man; 4. The origin of infancy; 5. The dawning of consciousness; 6. Lengthening of infancy and concomitant increase of brain-surface; 7. Change in the direction of the working of natural selection; 8. Growing predominance of the psychical life; 9. The origins of society and of morality; 10. Improvableness of man; 11. Universal warfare of primeval men; 12. First checked by the beginnings of industrial civilisation; 13. Methods of political development! and elimination of warfare; 14. End of the working of natural selection upon man; 15. The message of Christianity; 16. The question as to a future life.

Autorentext
John Fiske was an American philosopher and historian. He was highly influenced by Herbert Spencer and incorporated Spencer's evolutionary principles into his own studies on languages, philosophy, religion, and history. John Fiske was born Edmund Fiske Green on March 30, 1842, in Hartford, Connecticut. He was the sole child of Edmund Brewster Green of Smyrna, Delaware, and Mary Fiske Bound of Middletown, Connecticut. His father edited newspapers in Hartford, New York City, and Panama before dying in 1852. His widow married Edwin W. Stoughton of New York in 1855. Edmund Fiske Green took the name of his maternal great-grandfather, John Fiske, when his mother married for the second time. From 1869 to 1871, he was a philosophy professor at Harvard, then a history instructor in 1870, and finally an assistant librarian from 1872 to 1879. After quitting from the latter job in 1879, he was elected to the board of overseers and was re-elected when his six-year term expired in 1885. Beginning in 1881, he spoke on American history at Washington University in St. Louis on an annual basis, and he became a professor of American history there in 1884, but he continued to live in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

Zusammenfassung
American historian John Fiske published in 1884 this discussion of humanity's origin, destiny and place in the universe. A leading populariser of Darwin's theory in the United States, Fiske discusses his views of human progress via evolutionary social change and the harmony between science and religion.

Inhalt
Preface; 1. Man's place in nature as affected by the Copernican theory; 2. As affected by Darwinism; 3. On the earth there will never be a higher creature than man; 4. The origin of infancy; 5. The dawning of consciousness; 6. Lengthening of infancy and concomitant increase of brain-surface; 7. Change in the direction of the working of natural selection; 8. Growing predominance of the psychical life; 9. The origins of society and of morality; 10. Improvableness of man; 11. Universal warfare of primeval men; 12. First checked by the beginnings of industrial civilisation; 13. Methods of political development, and elimination of warfare; 14. End of the working of natural selection upon man; 15. The message of Christianity; 16. The question as to a future life.

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