Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from The Evolution of Civilization
This little book is a sequel to The A B C of Evolution, which was published last year. In that work I told, in outline, the story of the evolution of the universe, and particularly the evolution of life on the earth; and at the close I briefly described how the appearance of man crowned the long ages of earlier struggle.
Unfortunately, the limits of the work, which was merely a short and simple account, for people of little leisure, of the story of evolution, prevented me from enlarging upon the subject just when it became most interesting. The predominant feeling of our troubled age is social and humanitarian. We want to understand human life: to learn its meaning, its laws, its destiny. We feel that the pitiless struggles of the past cannot be the model of the present; that an entirely new phase of evolution has opened on this planet.
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