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One single war — we all know — may be productive of more evil, immediate and subsequent, than hundreds of years of the unchecked action of the mutual-aid principle may be productive of good.
Mutual Aid: A Factor of Evolution (1902)
It is especially in the domain of ethics that the dominating importance of the mutual-aid principle appears in full.
Mutual Aid: A Factor of Evolution (1902)
It is evident that no review of evolution can be complete, unless these two dominant currents are analyzed.
Mutual Aid: A Factor of Evolution (1902)
The unsociable species, on the contrary, are doomed to decay.
Mutual Aid: A Factor of Evolution (1902)
As to the sudden industrial progress which has been achieved during our own century, and which is usually ascribed to the triumph of individualism and competition, it certainly has a much deeper origin than that.
Mutual Aid: A Factor of Evolution (1902)
Each time, however, that an attempt to return to this old principle was made, its fundamental idea itself was widened. From the clan it was extended to the stem, to the federation of stems, to the nation, and finally — in ideal, at least — to the whole of mankind.
Mutual Aid: A Factor of Evolution (1902)