Is Human Nature Improving? Yes, and Thus Wise. By Miss Cobbe
Anon
Genre: | Abstract |
Publications abstracted: | Frances P Cobbe Forum |
Subjects: | Progress, Evolution, Human Species, Providence |
Cobbe advises that we should 'surely thank God and take courage, believing that in the order of His providence the "ape and tiger" are really, however slowly, dying out of human nature, while love and sympathy become stronger as the generations pass away'. | |
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