Excerpt from Evolutional Ethics and Animal Psychology Recent enlargement of mental science. Close connection between evolutional ethics and animal psychology. Modern survivals of mediaeval metaphysics and anthropocentric ethics. "Zoophily." Personification of inanimate objects by primitive peoples. Example from the Kalewala. Observation of animals by hunters and herdsmen in early society. Superstitious fear of animals and the rise of zoolatry.

Survivals of animal worship in the colts of civilized races. Human appreciation of the lower animals as the result of their domestication. Their position as members of the tribe or family. Their worth recognised by primitive legislation. The dog in the Avesta. Zarathustra's care for cattle. Buddha's precepts in respect to animal life. The doctrine of evolution taught by Greek philosophers.

The Ionic school of naturalists. Aristotle and Theophrastus. Greek speculation from Thales to Proclus. Celsus and Origen. Advanced views of Nemesius. His superiority to St. Augustine. Thomas Aquinas and the scholiasts.

Beasts as types and symbols of spiritual truths. Their equality with man before the law. The principle of animals' rights asserted by evolutionists and generally opposed by theologians. Lotze's theory of soul and body. Psychical faculties as affected by the physical organism. Their coetaneous development and peculiar interdependence in the pithecoid stage of man's evolution. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.

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