Essays of a humanist

Bibliographical footnotes.

The emergence of Darwinism. Higher and lower. Psychometabolism. The humanist frame. Education and humanism. Birds and science. The Coto Donana. Riches of wild Africa. Toynbee and time-scales. Teilhard de Chardin. The new divinity. The enlightenment and the population problem. The crowded world. Eugenics in evolutionary perspective

'All my life I have been interested in evolution and its manifestations....I became convinced of the necessity of extending the general theory of evolution to cover the manifestations and processes of human nature as well as those of nature in the customary sense, but at the same time of the folly and indeed danger of simply extrapolating biological principles into the human sphere....I formulated the concept of a critical point between the biological and the human or psychosocial phase of evolution, a threshold whose crossing involved a radical change in the methods and the results of the process....there gradually emerged what I believe to be a reasonably true, reasonably comprehensive, and reasonably coherent framework or system of ideas, which I call Evolutionary Humanism.'

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