Excerpt from Social Evolution
Influenced. The whole plan of life is, in short, being slowly revealed to us in a new light, and we are beginning to perceive that it presents a single majestic unity, throughout every part of which the conditions of law and orderly progress reign supreme.
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Social Evolution was written by Benjamin Kidd in 1894. This is a 368 page book, containing 109820 words and 5pictures. Search Inside is enabled for this title.
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In 1894, Benjamin Kidd published an influential book that summarised and evaluated the prevailing social theories at the end of the nineteenth century: Karl Marx's socialism and Herbert Spencer's social Darwinism. Kidd called for a comprehensive study of society because a new era in Western civilisation was beginning.
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