Science and Faith (Classic Reprint) - Hardcover

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A glance at the Table of Contents will show the reader the manner in which Dr. Topinard has endeavored to solve this problem. Man as an animal, the factors and conditions of evolution, the animal family, animal and human societies. The human family, political and religious evolution, social evo lution proper, the high rdle of ideas in progress, the functions of the State and of education in shaping conduct, are succes sively considered. We would call especial attention to the pages which deal with the evolution and difierentiation of the ego, in all its multitudinous forms.* Here lies the key to the situation; and the results of modern biological and psycho logical research on this subject Dr. Topinard has exploited to the full. The analysis of the ego, so called, furnishes the mechanism of establishing right conduct. Right conduct is originally to be based upon right reasoning, upon an adequate and comprehensive consideration, both from the individual and social point of view, of the determinative facts involved. For the purposes of practice, that reasoning is to be consoli dated into fixed and automatic habits; the individual must, so to Speak, be de-individualised, or rather, super-individualised; altruism in the form of the maxim of Christ, Love ye one another, and as a species of differentiated and enlarged egoism, is the basis of his system, habits and social instincts are the means. In a word, a rationally and socio-centrically acquired ego, mechanical in its habits and super-individual in its impulses, is to be substituted for the primordial, self-seeking animal ego. This has been the method by which, in all history, right con du'ct has been secured; and modern psychology has found the mechanism of this method of education to harmonise with the results of its purely scientific analysis of the human soul.

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