A Vision of the Future, Based on the Application of Ethical Principles

By Jane Hume Clapperton
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Excerpt: "Social Problems are the chief interest and study of my life. In 1885 I published in London a work entitled Scientific Meliorism and the Evolution of Happiness. The world of thought has acquired new knowledge since then; and many social changes have occurred. The present volume is not a replica of that work, although, as before, my aim has been to gather together the currents of meliorism pursuing diverse courses throughout society and to throw upon these the light of fresh knowledge gained by investigators of economic and social science; and, above all, the light emanating from philosophic thinkers who recognize that the path of improved outward conditions, and the path of inward progress for man, lie parallel to each other. It is my belief that in this dawning epoch of conscious evolution man may, if he so chooses, push forward the actual life of to-day and merge it into the ideal life of to-morrow. There has recently occurred a widespread commemoration of the birth of that pure-souled American, who was pre-eminently a teacher of the ideal life. This volume, I hope, will be read in America, viand, to the memory of Emerson I tender homage, while adopting his phrase, "Hitch Your Wagon to a Star," as the motto of my book. The toil of man's daily life alas! is indeed as the straining and jolting of a lumbering wagon,—it grovels, it wallows, it drags wearily, and the soul of the wagoner soars not. But there are few thinkers who confront the great social question of the hour as not the rescue of the submerged tenth merely, not the elevation of the masses only, but the uplifting of all Humanity to higher levels in the scale of being. When the great process of social reform is animated and ruled by that lofty aspiration, the lumbering wagon of toil will become a triumphal chariot of moral and spiritual progress."

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GenrePsychology, Philosophy
Length8 hrs 50 mins
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FormateBook with Audio
Publish dateApr 6, 2022
LanguageEnglish

Table of contents

1INITIAL CHAPTER HAPPINESS
2PART I ECONOMICS IN MODERN LIFE
3CHAPTER I THE INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION
4CHAPTER II ORGANIZED INDUSTRY
5PART II THE PHYSIOLOGICAL ASPECTS OF THE SUBJECT
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6CHAPTER I THE LAW OF POPULATION
7CHAPTER II THE PROBLEM OF SEX
8CHAPTER III EUGENICS OR STIRPICULTURE
9CHAPTER IV MARRIAGE
10CHAPTER V PARENTAGE
11PART III ABNORMAL HUMANITY: THE ELIMINATION OF CRIME
12PART IV EVOLUTION OF THE EMOTIONS
13CHAPTER I THE SENTIMENTS OF INDIVIDUAL RIGHTS AND SOCIAL JUSTICE
14CHAPTER II RAPACITY, PRIDE, LOVE OF PROPERTY
15CHAPTER III PERSONAL JEALOUSY—NATIONAL PATRIOTISM
16PART V EDUCATION OR DIRECT TRAINING OF CHILDHOOD TO THE CIVILIZED HABIT OF MIND: EDUCATION
17PART VI CONDITIONS IN AID OF HAPPY LIFE IN A DEVELOPING CIVILIZATION
18CHAPTER I THE NEEDS OF ADOLESCENCE
19CHAPTER II DOMESTIC REFORM
20PART VII RELIGION AND THE RELIGIOUS LIFE
21SUMMARY
22SYNOPSIS

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