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been made to the sum total of human happiness. 

 Paradoxical as may seem such a consequence of 

 this enormous increase in the productivity of each 

 individual workman, the amount of poverty, dis- 

 ease, and suffering, the slums of the cities, and the 

 burden of fear and of care in the life of the common 

 man have been greatly increased since the coming 

 of the industrial revolution. 



Mr. A. R. Wallace, the co-discoverer with 

 Darwin of the theory of evolution, has reached the 

 conclusion that the human race has degenerated 

 morally during the past centm-y. ^ May it not be 

 that this failure to make social, intellectual, and 

 moral progress corresponding to the progress 

 which we have made in the physical world is due 

 to the fact that we have relied upon this false 

 principle of physical force as an effective measure 

 in human relations? This is the conclusion which 

 at least one noted historian^ has reached. He 

 states his conclusion as follows : 



The slow moral progress of European civilization 

 during the last two or three centuries, compared with 

 its wonderful intellectual and material progress, may 

 with little hesitation be attributed in large part to the 

 unfavourable influence of its war ethics upon its every- 

 day moral code. The war code is applied to politics, 

 to ordinary business, and to the relations of the indus- 

 trial classes. ... So long as nations act under the 



•Wallace, Social Environment and Moral Progress, 1913. 

 Chapter xvii., p. 169. 



» Philip Van Ness Myers, History as Past Ethics, pp. 379-380. 



