CHAPTER VII 



EVOLUTION THEORIES IN THEIR SOCIAL 

 ORIGINS AND INTERACTIONS 



Evolution theories: their history from social side Limi- 

 tations yet advantages of social outlooks From social 

 progress to naturalist outlook Science in its relation to 

 labour Science in Philosophy, Education and Life The 

 natural sciences once more Summary of preceding argu- 

 ment Education through nature-occupations to vocations 

 Rustic and urban as contrasted in thought Needed 

 renewal of rustic point of view. 



IN the introduction we saw that the doctrine 

 of evolution was on one side a generalization 

 from science after science from astronomy 

 and geology, even sooner and more plainly 

 than from zoology and botany; from phi- 

 lology and other human sciences also. We 

 saw the faith in evolution arising, less con- 

 sciously, no doubt, but perhaps all the more 

 deeply; and through the social transfor- 

 mations of its age. The generation of cul- 

 minating political revolution in France, that 

 of the culmination of the industrial revolu- 

 tion in England, have thus expressed them- 

 selves through Lamarck and Darwin more 



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