Review of Reviews,  1 (1890), 305.

Why Progress Must be Slow? Scientific Consolation for Impatient Reformers

Anon

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Abstract

Publications abstracted:

Cesare Lombroso Nouvelle Revue Internationale

Subjects:

Progress, Natural Law, Physiology


    Lombroso argues that 'man and human society are instinctively conservative' and all 'efforts in favour of progress which express themselves by too brusque and violent means are not in accordance with physiological law'.



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