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Excerpt from English Evolutionary Ethics: A Thesis Presented to the Faculty of Cornell University in Fulfillment of a Part of the Requirements for the Degree of Doctor of Philosophy, May, 1895 It is not altogether satisfactory to publish a thesis nearly seven years after writing it. The problem is presented of maintaining practically the same arguments and conclusions which were then held, and at the same time to be true to ones present thought. In the solution of this difficulty, there has been a partial rearrangement of the material, and the concluding chapter of each part has been somewhat modified. Yet the thesis remains practically as it was at first presented. The slight modifications are, it is hoped in the direction of real progress in thought in the intervening years, and the writer has no intention of disowning his product. A present writing de novo would furnish, however, a somewhat different work, especially taking into account, and profiting by, several important works on various phases of the subject which have more recently appeared. Chapters I, II, III, V, VI, and VII are in part expository and in part critical, while Chapters IV and VIII are intended to mark an advance and to be suggestive of doctrine. The writer has departed somewhat from the usual custom in not using quotation marks, and in not giving page and line references in exposition. The works referred to are so well known, and the exposition carried on to such an extent, that even though the language of the original has been used constantly, it would seem unnecessary and even pedantic to formally credit the references. I wish to acknowledge my deep obligation to President Jacob Gould Shurman, my teacher and inspirer in ethical study, while this thesis was being prepared. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.