Man's Moral Nature: An Essay
BUCKE, Richard Maurice, M.D.
From Attic Books (ABAC, ILAB), London, ON, Canada
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AbeBooks Seller since 15 December 2006
From Attic Books (ABAC, ILAB), London, ON, Canada
Seller rating 5 out of 5 stars
AbeBooks Seller since 15 December 2006
About this Item
xiii, 200 p. 21 cm. 3 b&w plates with tissue guards. Brown cloth hardcover with blank impressing. Some soiling to boards, bumped corners, softened spine ends, small scuff on lower spine. Front free endpaper missing. Signature of F. E. Perrin on a preliminary page. R. M. Bucke dedicates this book to his friend, American poet Walt Whitman, for his "exalted moral nature." Bucke divides man's moral nature into three parts: 1) active nature, by which he acts, 2) intellectual nature, by which he knows, and 3) moral nature proper, by which he feels. Moral nature, Bucke believes, has a physiological basis in the sympathetic nervous system (pictured opposite p. 48) and intellectual nature in the cerebral spinal system (pictured opposite p. 60). He concluds that an evolution in man's moral nature reflects a development of his sympathetic nervous system. The signature of F. E. Perrin at front is likely that of London, Ontario resident Finley Ewart Perrin. Seller Inventory # 115118
Bibliographic Details
Title: Man's Moral Nature: An Essay
Publisher: G. P. Putnam's Sons; Willing & Williamson, New York; Toronto
Publication Date: 1879
Binding: Hardcover
Condition: Good
Edition: First Edition.
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