Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: CHAPTER III Influence of changes of environment on character?Interacting influences? Destruction and reconstruction?Partial evolutions of human society?Political Evolution?Rule of physical force?Despotism of the few?Revolution?Dawn of new psychic faculties?A superficial renewal?Industrial Evolution?Saint Simon's conception of ' social man'?The working classes?Their psychic adaptabilities determined by industrial changes?Employers self-seeking?The solidarity of workers?Dawn of other psychic activities?The EvoluTion Op Woman?Woman a domestic animal?Man's law?The psychology of slaves?Home lives?Woman's individualism?Her positive and evolutionary faculties?Domestic struggles?Feminine claims?Successive liberations?Woman's part in the conscious improvement of individuals. We have seen that psychic man, with rare exceptions, is the result of the conditions in which he lives. But conditions are altered by the perpetual stir of humanity, as well as occasionally by deliberately planned movements. Slowly through the ages these changes modify the mentality and character of social classes and individuals. In the same way the possibilities of evolution for human beings change likewise. Let us survey rapidly some important changes in environments, such as occurred at typical periods during past centuries, their influence on the character of the average man, and the resulting possibilities of individual psychic evolution. At all periods, and in all countries, inequalities of various kinds have divided people into classes: the upper ruling and privileged, the lower living in greater or less dependence on the upper. Further, everyone finds his life determined by different kinds of relations, varyingaccording to the period and class to which he belongs. These relations are political, such ...
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