SOCIAL EVOLUTION. 



By BENJAMIN KIDD. 



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" The name of Mr. Benjamin Kidd, author of a very striking work on ' Social 

 Evolution,' is, so far as we know, new to the literary world; but it is not often 

 that a new and unknown writer makes his first appearance with a work so novel 

 in conception, so fertile in suggestion, and on the whole so powerful in exposition 

 as ' Social Evolution ' appears to us to be, ... a book which no serious thinker 

 should neglect, and no reader can study without recognizing it as the work of a 

 singularly penetrating and original mind." The Times (London). 



" It is a study of the whole development of humanity in a new light, and it is 

 sustained and strong and fresh throughout. ... It is a profound work which 

 invites the attention of our ablest minds, and which will reward those who give it 

 their careful and best thought. It marks out new lines of study, and is written in 

 that calm and resolute tone which secures the confidence of the reader. It is 

 undoubtedly the ablest book on social development that has been published for a 

 long time." Boston Herald. 



" Those who wish to follow the Bishop of Durham's advice to his clergy ' to 

 think over the questions of socialism, to discuss them with one another reverently 

 and patiently, but not to improvise hasty judgments ' will find a most admira- 

 ble introduction in Mr. Kidd's book on social evolution. It is this because it not 

 merely contains a comprehensive view of the very wide field of human progress, 

 but is packed with suggestive thoughts for interpreting it aright. . . . We hope 

 that the same clear and well-balanced judgment that has given us this helpful 

 essay will not stay here, but give us further guidance as to the principles which 

 ought to govern right thinking on this, the question of the day. We heartily 

 commend this really valuable study to every student of the perplexing problems 

 of socialism." The Churchman. 



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