From Comte to Benjamin Kidd : The Appeal to Biology or Evolution for Human Guidance (Paperback)

Preface; 1. Introduction; Part I. Comtism, with Some Scattered Parallels: 2. Comte's life and the principles of his teaching; 3. The appeal to biology; 4. The appeal to history; 5. The doctrine of altruism; 6. Comte's law-giving; Part II. Simple Evolutionism?Spencer, Stephen: 7. Darwinian and Spencerian conceptions of evolution?Darwin; 8. Darwinian and Spencerian conceptions of evolution?Spencer; 9. Mr. Spencer's three doctrines of human welfare; 10. Mr. Leslie Stephen's 'Science of Ethics'; Part III. Darwinism, or Struggle for Existence: 11. 'Darwinism in Morals'?Miss Cobbe's protest; 12. Darwinism in politics?Bagehot; 13. Darwinism in ethics?Professor Alexander; 14. Reaction from Darwinism?Huxley; 15. Reaction from Darwinism?Drummond's 'Ascent of Man'; 16. Reiteration of Darwinism: elimination made absolute?Mr. A. Sutherland; 17. The metaphysics of natural selection; Part IV. Hyper-Darwinism?Weismann, Kidd: 18. 'Fairy Tale of Science'?; 19. Hyper-Darwinism in sociology: struggle made absolute?Mr. Kidd; 20. Summary and conclusions.