Abstract
A FEW weeks ago, at a session of the B.B.C. Brains Trust (at which Prof. Julian Huxley was not present), the opinion of the members was asked on a suitable ethical basis for modern thought and action. One member spoke up for orthodox Christianity, but, from the rest, there was complete silence. Much the same reaction would probably be obtained from any half dozen people selected at random from the Western Democracies. Prof. Huxley, in his Romanes Lecture on "Evolutionary Ethics", sets out to fill this partial vacuum with an exposition of ethical principles and practice based on the scientific approach to life and its problems and, in particular, on the facts, of evolution.
Evolutionary Ethics
By Prof. Julian S. Huxley. (The Romanes Lecture delivered in the Sheldonian Theatre, 11 June 1943.) Pp. 84. (London: Oxford University Press, 1943.) 2s. net.
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GILMOUR, J. Evolutionary Ethics. Nature 153, 94–95 (1944). https://doi.org/10.1038/153094a0
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