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and in any case many ways of mellowing the 

 crudeness of current mechanism. 



CHAPTER VII 



EVOLUTION THEORIES IN THEIR SOCIAL 

 ORIGINS AND INTER- ACTIONS 



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 pre- 

 ceding argument Education through nature-occupa- 

 tions 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 philology 

 and other human sciences also. We saw the 

 faith in evolution arising, less consciously, 

 no doubt, but perhaps all the more deeply; 

 and through the social transformations of its 

 age. The generation of culminating political 

 revolution in France, that of the culmination 

 of the industrial revolution in England, have 

 thus expressed themselves through Lamarck 

 and Darwin more clearly than either thinkers 



