Evolution

For nearly every age before ours, the Golden Age lay behind it. Why, at the close of the nineteenth century, has civilisation begun to look ahead with confidence?

Steam, electricity, new discoveries and wider education have transformed the modern world—and with them has come an extraordinary faith that tomorrow will be better. Frank B. Jevons begins by asking whether this optimism is more than a passing mood. Darwin’s account of humanity’s descent from earlier forms, he argues, changed how people understood society’s long ascent from savagery to civilisation. But if evolution means progress, does it also tell us what progress ought to be? Jevons probes the uneasy ground where scientific ideas meet moral duty, and asks what hope can truly justify.

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