Evolution and ethics : and other essays

although Dubbed “darwin’s Bulldog,” thomas Huxley Did Not Think The Doctrine Of Evolution Could Give Us A Sense Of Ethics. He Felt An Evolutionary Account Of Our Origins Must Take Morality Quite Seriously, And We Must Build It Into Our Theories About Human Behavior. Even Today, The Attempt To Build A Naturalistic Ethics Grounded In Evolutionary Theory Remains Problematic, And Huxley’s Writings Are As Relevant As When He First Penned Them. Let us now imagine that some administrative authority, as far superior in power and intelligence to men, as men are to their cattle, is set over the colony, charged to deal with its human elements in such a manner as to assure the victory of the settlement over the antagonistic influences of the state of nature in which it is set down. He would proceed in the same fashion as that in which the gardener dealt with his garden. Introduction Preface Evolution and ethics: Prolegomena Evolution and ethics: The Romanes lecture Science and morals Capital the mother of labor Social diseases and worse remedies Introductory essay Letters to the Times on the Darkest England scheme Legal opinions respecting "General" Booth's acts The Salvation Army Endnotes Suggested reading.