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Answers questions on Charles Darwin's On the Origin of Species: natural selection, variation and the struggle for existence, quoting the 1859 text from Project Gutenberg (public domain) and naming the chapter.
“If species be only well-marked and permanent varieties, we can at once see why their crossed offspring should follow the same complex laws in their degrees and …”
Answers questions on Henry George's Progress and Poverty: why poverty persists as wealth grows, rent, wages and the taxation of land values, quoting the text from Project Gutenberg (public domain) and naming the book.
“Now, just as the politico-economic doctrines which in the beginning of this inquiry we met and disproved, harmonize with the common opinion of men who see capit…”
Answers questions on Thorstein Veblen's The Theory of the Leisure Class: conspicuous consumption, conspicuous leisure and pecuniary emulation, quoting the text from Project Gutenberg (public domain) and naming the chapter.
“Social evolution is a process of selective adaptation of temperament and habits of thought under the stress of the circumstances of associated life. The adaptat…”
Answers questions on H. G. Wells's A Short History of the World, from the origins of life and the first civilisations to the First World War, quoting the text from Project Gutenberg (public domain) and naming the chapter.
“…into a belief in what is called Organic Evolution, a belief that all species of life upon earth, animal and vegetable alike, are descended by slow continuous pr…”
Answers questions on The Art of Public Speaking by Esenwein and Carnegie: confidence, voice, gesture, preparation and holding an audience, quoting the 1915 text from Project Gutenberg (public domain).
“It is true that man, in some physical characteristics resembles the beast, but man has a mind as well as a body, and a soul as well as a mind. The mind is great…”
