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CHAPTER V.. On the Development of the Intellectual and Moral Faculties

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ON THE DEVELOPMENT OF THE INTELLECTUAL AND MORAL FACULTIES DURING PRIMEVAL AND CIVILISED TIMES.

The advancement of the intellectual powers through natural selection--Importance of imitation--Social and moral faculties--Their development within the limits of the same tribe--Natural selection as affecting civilised nations--Evidence that civilised nations were once barbarous 158-184

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