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THIS is a careful, fair but completely devastating analysis of the evolutionary theories of ethics which were very fashionable towards the end of the nineteenth century and still have a considerable vogue. It deals mainly with the work of Darwin, Spencer, W. K. Clifford, Leslie Stephen, Guyau and Wester-marck. Later writers do not appear to have produced any fresh arguments.
The Moral Theory of Evolutionary Naturalism
By Prof. William F. Quillian Jr. (Yale Studies in Religious Education, No. 17.) Pp. xiii + 154. (New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press; London: Oxford University Press, 1945.) 20s. net.
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RITCHIE, A. The Moral Theory of Evolutionary Naturalism. Nature 157, 173 (1946). https://doi.org/10.1038/157173a0
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