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  schema location: http://www.loc.gov/mods/v3 http://www.loc.gov/standards/mods/v3/mods-3-2.xsd
  title info:
    title: Social environment and moral progress
  title info:
    title: PsycBOOKs
  name:
    name part: Wallace, Alfred Russel
    name part: 1823-1913
    role:
      role term: creator
  type of resource: text
  genre: Electronic books.
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: nyu
    date issued: 1913
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    reformatting quality: access
    form: remote
    extent: 1 online resource (viii, 163 pages, 1 unnumbered pages) : including frontispiece (portrait)
  abstract: "Before entering on the question of the relation of morality to our existing social environment, it will be advisable to inquire what we mean by moral progress, and what evidence there is that any such progress has occurred in recent times, or even within the period of well-established history. The belief was once prevalent, and is still held by many persons, that a knowledge of right and wrong is inherent or instinctive in everyone, and that the immoral person may be justly punished for such wrongdoing as he commits. But that this cannot be wholly, if at all, true is shown by the fact that in different societies and at different periods the standard of right and wrong changes considerably. We are obliged to conclude, therefore, that what is commonly termed morality is not wholly due to any inherent perception of what is right or wrong conduct, but that it is to some extent and often very largely a matter of convention, varying at different times and places in accordance with the degree and kind of social development which has been attained often under different and even divergent conditions of existence. The actual morality of a community is largely a product of the environment, but it is local and temporary, not permanently affecting the character. To bring together the evidence in support of this view, to distinguish between what is permanent and inherited and what is superficial and not inherited, and to trace out some of the consequences as regards what we term "morality" is the purpose of the present volume"--Introduction. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved).
  note: by Alfred Russel Wallace ...
  note: Electronic resource.
  note: Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL
  note: digitized 2010 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve pda MiAaHDL
  subject:
    topic: Social ethics
  subject:
    topic: Natural selection
  subject:
    topic: Sociale omgeving
  subject:
    topic: Natural selection
  subject:
    topic: Social ethics
  classification: HM216 .W17
  classification: 171 W15
  classification: 71.12
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    title info:
      title: Social environment and moral progress
    name:
      name part: Wallace, Alfred Russel, 1823-1913.
    origin info:
      publisher: London, New York [etc.] Cassell and Co., 1913
    identifier: (DLC) 13009158
    identifier: (OCoLC)2610437
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  record info:
    record content source: OCLCE
    record creation date: 081001
    record change date: 20260612153221.0
    record identifier: in00003520004
    language of cataloging:
      language term: eng