The origin and development of the moral ideas

by Edward Westermarck

Moral Ideas

BY EDWARD WESTERMARCK, PH.D., LL.D.

SOME PRESS OPINIONS ON VOL. I.

ATHENÆUM.—

“The first attempt to deal with the subject of the evolution of human morality in the concrete on a scale at all corresponding to its complexity and sheer bulk.… This book remains an achievement unsurpassed in its own kind, a perpetual monument of the courage, the versatility, and the amazing industry of its author.”

“The first attempt to deal with the subject of the evolution of human morality in the concrete on a scale at all corresponding to its complexity and sheer bulk.… This book remains an achievement unsurpassed in its own kind, a perpetual monument of the courage, the versatility, and the amazing industry of its author.”

R. R. Marett, in MIND.—

“Dr. Westermarck’s work fills me with profound admiration.… There is no book in any language that deals concretely with the evolution of morality on so grand a scale or in so authoritative a way.”

“Dr. Westermarck’s work fills me with profound admiration.… There is no book in any language that deals concretely with the evolution of morality on so grand a scale or in so authoritative a way.”

Havelock Ellis, in THE JOURNAL OF MENTAL SCIENCE.—