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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