Social Environment and Moral Progress by Alfred Russel Wallace 1823-1913

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Social Environment and Moral Progress by Alfred Russel Wallace 1823-1913

http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/50289

The belief was once prevalent, and is still held by many persons, that a knowledge of right and wrong is inherent or instinctive in everyone, and that the immoral person may be justly punished for such wrongdoing as he commits. But that this cannot be wholly, if at all, true is shown by the fact that in different societies and at different periods the standard of right and wrong changes considerably. That which at one time and place is held to be right and proper is, at another time or place, considered to be not only wrong, but one of the greatest of crimes.

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