Not Guilty:
Not Guilty: A Defence of the Bottom Dog
作者：Blatchford, Robert, 1851-1943
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共 80 题- Produced by David Widger
- NOT GUILTY:
- A DEFENCE OF THE BOTTOM DOG
- By Robert Blatchford
- NEW YORK: BONI AND LIVERIGHT: 1918
- Dedicated to my Old Friend & Fellow Worker W.T. WILKINSON
- THE AUTHOR'S APOLOGY
- I shall be told this means that no man is answerable for his own acts.
- CHAPTER ONE--THE LAWS OF GOD
- CHAPTER TWO--THE LAWS OF MAN
- CHAPTER THREE--WHERE DO OUR NATURES COME FROM?
- NOW, WHAT DO WE MEAN BY "HEREDITY"?
- WHY WE ARE NOT ALL ALIKE
- WHY THE CLOCK OF DESCENT SOMETIMES GOES BACKWARD
- THE MYSTERY OF DESCENT MADE EASY
- Here we have a simple illustration of "heredity" and "variation."
- WHERE DO OUR NATURES COME FROM?
- CHAPTER FOUR--THE BEGINNINGS OF MORALS
- WHERE DID MORALS COME FROM?
- THE BEGINNINGS OF MORALS
- CHAPTER FIVE--THE ANCESTRAL STRUGGLE WITHIN US
- The Great Arteries of Human Nature
- 1. Education: we have been _taught_ that certain acts are wrong.
- 2. Natural benevolence: a dislike to injure others.
- OUR POSSIBILITIES
- 1. How is it that genius does not always beget genius?
- 2. How is it mediocrity does sometimes beget genius?
- 1. Consumptive, both parents died of the disease.
- 3. Normal.
- 4. Deaf and mentally defective.
- 5. Neurotic and mentally defective.
- 6. No congenital defect, but health ruined by drink.
- 7 and 8. Feeble character.
- 9. Suffering from persistent bad memory.
- 10. Twice imprisoned for theft; daughter of drunken loafer.
- 11. Normal.
- 1. Defective nutrition in early years of life.
- 2. Hereditary tendency to consumption.
- 3. Descent from insane or criminal stock.
- 4. Chronic alcoholism of one or both parents.
- CHAPTER SIX--ENVIRONMENT
- MORALS AND DISEASE
- I quote again from Dr. Lydston:
- Food
- Poverty, Labor, and Overcrowding
- WOMEN IN THE METROPOLIS OF THE WORLD
- BRITONS NEVER, NEVER, SHALL
- Love Hunger
- EDUCATION
- PERSONAL INFLUENCES
- CHAPTER SEVEN--HOW HEREDITY AND ENVIRONMENT WORK
- I hope I have made that clear.
- Why does an apple tree never bear bananas? Because it cannot
- John is a drunkard from heredity and environment
- And he calls atavism "original sin."
- CHAPTER EIGHT--GOOD AND BAD SURROUNDINGS
- CHAPTER NINE--THE ORIGIN OF CONSCIENCE
- 1. Geographical: that it is not the same in one country as in another.
- 2. Historical: that it is not the same in one age as in another.
- 3. Personal: that it is not the same in one person as in another.
- 4. Changeable: it alters with its owner's mind.
- THE ORIGIN OF CONSCIENCE
- SCIENCE AND CONSCIENCE
- I will quote first from Darwin, "Descent of Man," Chapter 4:
- CHAPTER TEN--FREE WILL
- There is no need to deny that. _But what causes him to choose?_
- The average man says "I know that I can act as I wish to act."
- WHAT HAD FREE WILL TO DO WITH IT?
- CHAPTER ELEVEN--SELF-CONTROL
- 1. By the nature of the individual: which is his heredity.
- 2. By his experiences and training: which are his environment
- CHAPTER TWELVE--GUILTY OR NOT GUILTY?
- I make a note of the repentance and pass on.
- GUILTY OR NOT GUILTY?
- CHAPTER THIRTEEN--THE FAILURE OF PUNISHMENT
- I will quote from Sir Thomas:
- For treason men were "hanged, drawn, and quartered."
- TO WHAT DOES ALL THIS EVIDENCE TEND?
- CHAPTER FOURTEEN--SOME OBJECTIONS ANSWERED
- CHAPTER FIFTEEN--THE DEFENCE OF THE BOTTOM DOG