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Man's Moral Nature: An Essay

Man's Moral Nature: An Essay

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Man's Moral Nature: An Essay

by BUCKE, Richard Maurice, M.D

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New York; Toronto: G. P. Putnam's Sons; Willing & Williamson, 1879. First Edition. Hardcover. Good. xiii, 200 p. 21 cm. 3 b&w plates with tissue guards. Brown cloth hardcover with blank impressing. Some soiling to boards, bumped corners, softened spine ends, small scuff on lower spine. Front free endpaper missing. Signature of F. E. Perrin on a preliminary page.

R. M. Bucke dedicates this book to his friend, American poet Walt Whitman, for his "exalted moral nature." Bucke divides man's moral nature into three parts: 1) active nature, by which he acts, 2) intellectual nature, by which he knows, and 3) moral nature proper, by which he feels. Moral nature, Bucke believes, has a physiological basis in the sympathetic nervous system (pictured opposite p. 48) and intellectual nature in the cerebral spinal system (pictured opposite p. 60). He concluds that an evolution in man's moral nature reflects a development of his sympathetic nervous system. The signature of F. E. Perrin at front is likely that of London, Ontario resident Finley Ewart Perrin.

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Bookseller's Inventory #
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Title
Man's Moral Nature: An Essay
Author
BUCKE, Richard Maurice, M.D
Format/Binding
Hardcover
Book Condition
Used - Good
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Edition
First Edition
Publisher
G. P. Putnam's Sons; Willing & Williamson
Place of Publication
New York; Toronto
Date Published
1879
Keywords
Philosophy, Walt Whitman, Morality, Physiology, Nervous System, Evolution, Perrin
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