The destiny of man
Subtitle: viewed in the light of his origin
By: by John Fiske
Publisher: Houghton, Mifflin and company
Published: 1912
Place of publication: Boston, New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 121
Subjects: Immortality; Human beings; Psychology; Philosophy
Notes: An address before the Concord school of philosophy, 1884.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 120-121).
Table of contents: title: I. Man's place in nature as affected by the Copernican theory; title: II. As affected by Darwinism; title: III. On the earth there will never be a higher creature than man; title: IV. The origin of infancy; title: V. The dawning of consciousness; title: VI. Lengthening of infancy and concomitant increase of brain-surface; title: VII. Change in the direction of the working of natural selection; title: VIII. Growing predominance of the psychical life; title: IX. The origins of society and of morality; title: X. Improvableness of man; title: XI. Universal warfare of primeval men; title: XII. First checked by the beginnings of industrial civilization; title: XIII. Methods of political development, and elimination of warfare; title: XIV. End of the working of natural selection upon man. Throwing off the brute-inheritance; title: XV. The message of Christianity; title: XVI. The question as to a future life.