Social Progress

and the

Darwinian Theory

A Study of Force as a Factor in
Human Relations

By

George Nasmyth, Ph.D.

With an Introduction by
Norman Angell

G. P. Putnam's Sons.
New York and London
The Knickerbocker Press
1916

CHAPTER

I.

II.

CONTENTS

PART I.

THE PHILOSOPHY OF FORCE

THE PHILOSOPHY OF FORCE

CAUSES OF THE SUCCESS OF THE PHILO-

SOPHY OF FORCE

III.

THE BIOLOGICAL ERRORS

IV. THE GENERAL SOCIOLOGICAL ERRORS

V. THE SPECIAL SOCIOLOGICAL ERRORS

VI. THE DECLINING ECONOMIC, SOCIAL, AND

MORAL EFFECTIVENESS OF FORCE

VII. THE INTELLECTUAL REVOLUTION

INDEX

PAGE

V

::: xxi

VIII.-FORCE AND THE SOCIAL STRUCTURE

IX.-DARWIN'S THEORY OF SOCIAL PROGRESS

X.-MUTUAL AID AS A LAW OF NATURE

PART II.

MUTUAL AID AS A FACTOR OF SOCIAL

PROGRESS

3

20

53

96

114

PART III.

JUSTICE AS A PRIME SOCIAL NEED

XI. THE RELATION OF MORALITY AND SELF-

INTEREST

339

XII. JUSTICE AND THE EXPANSION OF LIFE 362

XIII.-WORLD FEDERATION AND SOCIAL PROGRESS 380

399

175

212

243

268

303