Studies scientific & social :
by Alfred Russel Wallace ...
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| Language: | English |
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London ; New York :
Macmillan and co., limited,
1900.
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| Notes: | Mainly reprints of articles contributed to reviews and periodicals from 1865 to 1899. Physical description: 2v. : ill., maps (partly fold.) ; 20 cm. more |
Table of Contents:
v. I. Inaccessible valleys ; Permanence of oceanic basins ; Our molten globe ; Ice age and its work ; Gorge of the Aar ; Monkeys : affinities and distribution ; Disguises of insects ; English and American flowers ; Flowers and forests of the far west ; Palmarctic and Nearctic regions (animal distribution) ; Beetles of Madeira ; Evolution and the distribution of animals ; Origin of species and genera ; Critic of natural selection answered ; Are acquired characters inherited? ; Method of organic evolution ; Are specific characters useful? ; The Polynesians and their migrations ; New Guinea and inhabitants ; Affinities, etc., of Australian and Polynesian ; Problem of instinct ; Human selection
v. II. Museums for the people ; American museums ; How best to model the earth ; Epping forest and temperate forest regions ; White men in the tropics ; How to civilize savages ; Expressiveness of speech ; Coal a national trust ; Paper money ; Limitation of state functions in administration of justice ; Reciprocity the essence of free trade ; A representative House of Lords ; Disestablishment and disendowment ; Interest-bearing funds ; Land nationalisation ; Herbert Spencer on the land question ; A council of perfection for Sabbatarians ; Why live a moral life? ; Causes of war ; Economic and social justice ; Ralahine and its teachings ; Reoccupation of the land ; Human progress ; True individualism ; Justice not charity in social reform.
v. I. Inaccessible valleys ; Permanence of oceanic basins ; Our molten globe ; Ice age and its work ; Gorge of the Aar ; Monkeys : affinities and distribution ; Disguises of insects ; English and American flowers ; Flowers and forests of the far west ; Palmarctic and Nearctic regions (animal distribution) ; Beetles of Madeira ; Evolution and the distribution of animals ; Origin of species and genera ; Critic of natural selection answered ; Are acquired characters inherited? ; Method of organic evolution ; Are specific characters useful? ; The Polynesians and their migrations ; New Guinea and inhabitants ; Affinities, etc., of Australian and Polynesian ; Problem of instinct ; Human selection
v. II. Museums for the people ; American museums ; How best to model the earth ; Epping forest and temperate forest regions ; White men in the tropics ; How to civilize savages ; Expressiveness of speech ; Coal a national trust ; Paper money ; Limitation of state functions in administration of justice ; Reciprocity the essence of free trade ; A representative House of Lords ; Disestablishment and disendowment ; Interest-bearing funds ; Land nationalisation ; Herbert Spencer on the land question ; A council of perfection for Sabbatarians ; Why live a moral life? ; Causes of war ; Economic and social justice ; Ralahine and its teachings ; Reoccupation of the land ; Human progress ; True individualism ; Justice not charity in social reform.