CONTENTS. 



CHAPTER I. 



METHODS OF ETHICS, EVOLUTIONARY AND OTHER. 



Diversity of Ethical Theories Need of a Critique of 

 Ethics as a Science Is Ethics a Science of the 

 Same Type as Logic ? It has not in general been 

 so regarded Locke s Conception of Ethics as a 

 Demonstrative Science, like Mathematics, rests on 

 a Misunderstanding of the Procedure of Mathe 

 matics, and it assumes, besides, Theological First 

 Principles Ethics as a Natural Science Spen 

 cer s Reconstruction of Ethics on the Law of Uni 

 versal Causation, after the Model of Astronomy, an 

 Illusion Is Ethics, then, if not a Deductive, at 

 least an Empirical, Physical Science ? Its Limita 

 tions in Comparison with Biology Ethics, as a 

 Science, is a Branch of History What passes for 

 the &quot; Science of Ethics &quot; is a Medley of Specula 

 tionsThe Highly Speculative Character of Cur 

 rent Naturalistic, Evolutionary Ethics An Under 

 standing with Darwinism the Preliminary to a 

 True Science of Historical Ethics Transition to 

 Examination of Darwinism in Ethics, . . 1 



CHAPTER II. 



EVOLUTIONISM AND DARWINISM. 



&quot; The Origin of Species &quot; Popular View of Darwin 

 ismAntiquity of the Conception of Evolution 



