Not Guilty: A Defence of the Bottom Dog
New York: Albert and Charles Boni, 1913. Hard Cover. Very Good / No Jacket. Item #2300407
No jacket. A few faint stains on front board, pencil name on front free endpaper verso, rear endpapers faintly foxed.
167 pp. CONTENTS: The Author's Apology; The Laws of God; The Laws of Man; Where do our Natures Come From?; The Beginnings of Morals; The Ancestral Struggle within Us; Environment; How Heredity and Environment Work; Good and Bad Surroundings; The Origin of Conscience; Free Will; Self-Control; Guilty or Not Guilty?; The Failure of Punishment; Some Objections Answered; The Defence of the Bottom Dog. "Robert Peel Glanville Blatchford (17 March 1851 – 17 December 1943) was an English socialist campaigner, journalist, and author in the United Kingdom. He was also noted as a prominent atheist, opponent of eugenics, and English nationalist. In the early 1920s, after the death of his wife, he turned towards spiritualism." "The Clarion was a weekly newspaper published by Robert Blatchford, based in the United Kingdom. It was a socialist publication with a Britain-focused rather than internationalist perspective on political affairs, as seen in its support of the British involvement in the Anglo-Boer Wars and the First World War."
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