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The passing of the phantoms

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The passing of the phantoms

Charles Joseph Patten

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Phantoms haunt our thinking about mind and morals, and Patten, an anatomist, proposes to walk them out. His chapters marshal the evidences for the evolution of mental powers and the moral sense, tracing human conscience to natural origins. A short scientific essay from the 1920s with a ghost-story title. Watch the specters dissolve under the lens.

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7 chapters

  1. 1THE PASSING OF THE PHANTOMS
  2. 2PREFACE
  3. 3CONTENTS
  4. 4CHAPTER I THE REALITY OF EVOLUTION
  5. 5CHAPTER II EVIDENCES OF THE EVOLUTION OF MENTAL POWERS
  6. 6CHAPTER III EVIDENCES OF THE EVOLUTION OF THE MORAL SENSE
  7. 7CHAPTER IV THE EVOLUTION OF HUMAN MORALITY
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