CONTENTS
CHAPTER THREE — WHERE DO OUR NATURES COMEFROM?
CHAPTER FOUR — THE BEGINNINGS OF MORALS
CHAPTER FIVE — THE ANCESTRAL STRUGGLEWITHIN US
CHAPTER SEVEN — HOW HEREDITY ANDENVIRONMENT WORK
CHAPTER EIGHT — GOOD AND BAD SURROUNDINGS
CHAPTER NINE — THE ORIGIN OF CONSCIENCE
CHAPTER TWELVE — GUILTY OR NOT GUILTY?
CHAPTER THIRTEEN — THE FAILURE OFPUNISHMENT
CHAPTER FOURTEEN — SOME OBJECTIONS ANSWERED
CHAPTER FIFTEEN — THE DEFENCE OF THE BOTTOMDOG
THIS is not a stiff and learned work, written by a professor forprofessors, but a human book, written in humanity's behalf by a man, formen and women.
I shall not fret you with strange and stilted language, nor weary you withtedious and irksome science, nor gall you with far-fetched theories, norwaste your time in any vain word-twisting nor splitting of hairs.
A plain-dealing man, speaking frankly and simply to honest andplain-dealing readers, I shall trust to common sense and common knowledgeand common English to make my meaning clear.
I have been warned that it is easier to write a book on such a theme asthis than to get people to read it when written. But I am hopeful, and myhope springs from the living interest and deep significance of thesubject.
For in defending the Bottom Dog I do not deal with hard science only; butwith the dearest faiths, the oldest wrongs, and the most awfulrelationships of the great human family, for whose good I strive, and towhose judgment I appeal.
Knowing, as I do, how the hard-working and hard-playing public shunlaborious thinking and serious writing, and how they hate to have theirease disturbed or their prejudices handled rudely, I still make bold toundertake this task, because of the vital nature of the problems I shallprobe.
The case for the Bottom Dog should touch the public heart to the quick,for it affects the truth of our religions, the justice of our laws, andthe d