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”Charles Darwin around 1882: “As man advances in civilization, and small tribes are united into larger communities, the simplest reason would tell each individual that he ought to extend his social instincts and sympathies of all the members of the same nation, though personally unknown him. This point being once reached, there is only an artificial barrier to prevent his sympathies extending to the men of all nations and races”
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. . . Darwin held for many years to a vague theism. He believed in a “First Clause,” a divine intelligence that had set natural selection in motion with some end in mind. But then be began to wonder: “Can the mind of man, which has, as I fully believe, been developed from a mind as low as that possessed by the lowest animal, be trusted when it draws such grand conclusions?” Darwin finally settled into a more or less stable agnosticism. He migh in upbeat moments entertain theistic scenarios; but for long periods of his life, upbeat moments weren’t common. ~ Page 365
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THE MORAL ANIMAL
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Along with the gradual acceptance of unconscious mental processing, the nineteenth century saw another big idea burst onto the scene, this time out of the British Isles, with Charles darwin’s publication of “On the Origin of Species” in 1859. The firstr editions flew out of the bookstores and quickly aroused international interest. In the conclusion of the booi, Darwin also separated himself from the mind/body dualists when he wrote: “in the distant future I see open fields for far more important researches. Psychology will be based on a new foundation, that of the necessary acquirement of each mental power and capacity of gradation. Light will be thrown on the origin of man and his history. While there was some tut-tutting going around initially, by the time he published “The Descent of Man” in 1971, Darwin’s grand theory of evolution through natural selection was well accepted by the scientific community and much of the general public. In that book after detailing numerous examples of the continuity of physical and mental attributes that animals and men share, he concluded, “The difference in mind between man and the higher animals, great as it is, certainly is one of degree and not of kind.” Not one of the endow animals with immortal souls, Darwin was again arguing against mind/body dualism. ~ 52

THE CONSCIOUSNESS INSTINCT
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