John Fiske

The destiny of man

Viewed in the light of his origin. Nineteenth Edition

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

The destiny of man - Viewed in the light of his origin. Nineteenth Edition is an unchanged, high-quality reprint of the original edition of 1893.Hansebooks is editor of the literature on different topic areas such as research and science, travel and expeditions, cooking and nutrition, medicine, and other genres. As a publisher we focus on the preservation of historical literature. Many works of historical writers and scientists are available today as antiques only. Hansebooks newly publishes these books and contributes to the preservation of literature which has become rare and historical knowledge for the future.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Hansebooks
• Nachdruck der Ausgabe von 1893
• Seitenzahl: 128
• Erscheinungstermin: 27. Juli 2017
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 216mm x 140mm x 10mm
• Gewicht: 172g
• ISBN-13: 9783337270261
• ISBN-10: 3337270263
• Artikelnr.: 48841706

Inhaltsangabe

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.