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A brief summary will be sufficient to recall to the reader’s mind the more salient points in this work. Many of the views which have been advanced are highly speculative, and some no doubt will prove erroneous; but I have in every case given the reasons which have led me to one view rather than to another. It seemed worth while to try how far the principle of evolution would throw light on some of the more complex problems in the natural history of man. False facts are highly injurious to the progress of science, for they often endure long; but false views, if supported by some evidence, do little harm, for every one takes a salutary pleasure in proving their falseness: and when this is done, one path towards error is closed and the road to truth is often at the same time opened.
Contents
- Industrialism and Its After-effects
- Intellectual Responses to Industrial Modernity
- Adam Smith: The Wealth of Nations Year: 1776
- Leeds Woolen Workers Petition Year: 1786
- Andrew Ure: The Philosophy of Manufactures Year: 1835
- People’s Charter Year: 1838
- Louis Blanc: The Organization of Labor Year: 1839
- Horace Mann: “The Condition of the Children of Laborers on Public Works” Year: 1840
- Edwin Chadwick: Report on the Sanitary Condition of the Laboring Population Year: 1842
- Eighth Annual Report of the Poor Law Commissioners Year: 1842
- Treaty of Nanjing Year: 1842
- Rules of a Berlin Factory Year: 1844
- Harriet Farley (Using the Pseudonym “Susan”): Letters from the Lowell Mill Year: 1844
- Josephine L. Baker: “A Second Peep at Factory Life” Year: 1845
- Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels: Communist Manifesto Year: 1848
- Michael Faraday: Letter to the Editor about the River Thames Year: 1856
- William Acton: Prostitution Considered in Its Moral, Social, and Sanitary Aspects Year: 1857
- Giuseppe Mazzini: An Essay on the Duties of Man: Addressed to Workingmen Year: 1860
- Frederick Law Olmsted: Journeys and Explorations in the Cotton Kingdom Year: 1861
- Pacific Railway Act Date: 1862
- Charles Darwin: The Descent of Man Year: 1871
- Louis Pasteur: “The Germ Theory and Its Applications to Medicine and Surgery” Year: 1878
- Paul Lafargue: “The Socialist Ideal” Year: 1883
- Jacob Riis: How the Other Half Lives Year: 1890
- Jane Addams: “The Subjective Necessity for Social Settlements” Date: 1892
- Eduard Bernstein: Evolutionary Socialism 1899
- Karl Pearson: National Life from the Standpoint of Science Date: 1901
- Progressive Party Platform Date: 1912
- Joseph Stalin: “Results of the First Five-year Plan” Date: 1933