SUTHERLAND (Alexander): The Origin and Growth of the Moral Instinct. In Two Volumes. , London, New York and Bombay: Longmans, Green, and Co., 1898;

pp.xiii, 461; vi, 336 + 32 cat. Orig. blue cloth. A good, sound set though there is pervasive mild foxing, Vol.1 has ink notes on the front end-papers and Vol.2 has red ink notes affecting one chapter only. Several interesting cuttings pasted to prelim blanks. Inscribed by the author. Sutherland (1852-1902) was an Australian by adoption (born in Glasgow), a journalist and man of letters of wide interests, who became Registrar of the University of Melbourne. As he explains in his preface, 'full half of the book is a detailed expansion of [Darwin's] Descent of Man'. The first volume is biological in approach while the second is more directly philosophical. (Book ref. 2622)  £45.00

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