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Robert Blatchford. Not Guilty: A Defence of the Bottom Dog
Not Guilty: A Defence of the Bottom Dog
Table of Contents
THE AUTHOR'S APOLOGY
CHAPTER ONE—THE LAWS OF GOD
CHAPTER TWO—THE LAWS OF MAN
CHAPTER THREE—WHERE DO OUR NATURES COME FROM?
NOW, WHAT DO WE MEAN BY "HEREDITY"?
WHY WE ARE NOT ALL ALIKE
WHY THE CLOCK OF DESCENT SOMETIMES GOES BACKWARD
THE MYSTERY OF DESCENT MADE EASY
WHERE DO OUR NATURES COME FROM?
CHAPTER FOUR—THE BEGINNINGS OF MORALS
|WHAT do we mean by the words "sin" and "vice," and "crime"?
WHERE DID MORALS COME FROM?
THE BEGINNINGS OF MORALS
CHAPTER FIVE—THE ANCESTRAL STRUGGLE WITHIN US
OUR POSSIBILITIES
"THE BORN CRIMINAL"
CHAPTER SIX—ENVIRONMENT
|WHAT is environment?
MORALS AND DISEASE
WOMEN IN THE METROPOLIS OF THE WORLD
BRITONS NEVER, NEVER, SHALL
EDUCATION
PERSONAL INFLUENCES
CHAPTER SEVEN—HOW HEREDITY AND ENVIRONMENT WORK
CHAPTER EIGHT—GOOD AND BAD SURROUNDINGS
|THERE are many who always think of environment as something bad
CHAPTER NINE—THE ORIGIN OF CONSCIENCE
THE ORIGIN OF CONSCIENCE
SCIENCE AND CONSCIENCE
CHAPTER TEN—FREE WILL
WHAT HAD FREE WILL TO DO WITH IT?
CHAPTER ELEVEN—SELF-CONTROL
CHAPTER TWELVE—GUILTY OR NOT GUILTY?
ALL PRAISE AND ALL BLAME
GUILTY OR NOT GUILTY?
CHAPTER THIRTEEN—THE FAILURE OF PUNISHMENT
TO WHAT DOES ALL THIS EVIDENCE TEND?
CHAPTER FOURTEEN—SOME OBJECTIONS ANSWERED
CHAPTER FIFTEEN—THE DEFENCE OF THE BOTTOM DOG
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Robert Blatchford
Published by Good Press, 2021
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But, it may be objected, a man has power to change, or to conquer, his environment; to train, or to subdue, his original nature.
That depends upon the strength of his original nature (which his ancestors handed down to him) and of his environment—which consists, largely, of the actions of his fellow-creatures.
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