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Title: Social Rights and Duties, Volume I (of 2)
Addresses to Ethical Societies

Author: Sir Leslie Stephen

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The Ethical Library

SOCIAL RIGHTS AND DUTIES

Addresses to Ethical Societies

by

LESLIE STEPHEN

In Two Volumes

VOL. I.

London
Swan Sonnenschein & Co., Limited
New York: MacMillan & Co.
1896

NOTE.

The following chapters are chiefly a republication of addresses
delivered to the Ethical Societies of London. Some have previously
appeared in the _International Journal of Ethics_, the _National
Review_, and the _Contemporary Review_. The author has to thank the
proprietors of these periodicals for their consent to the republication.

L. S.

CONTENTS.

PAGE

THE AIMS OF ETHICAL SOCIETIES, 1

SCIENCE AND POLITICS, 45

THE SPHERE OF POLITICAL ECONOMY, 91

THE MORALITY OF COMPETITION, 133

SOCIAL EQUALITY, 175

ETHICS AND THE STRUGGLE FOR EXISTENCE, 221

THE AIMS OF ETHICAL SOCIETIES.[1]

I am about to say a few words upon the aims of this society: and I
should be sorry either to exaggerate or to depreciate our legitimate
pretensions. It would be altogether impossible to speak too strongly of
the importance of the great questions in which our membership of the
society shows us to be interested. It would, I fear, be easy enough to
make an over-estimate of the part which we can expect to play in their
solution. I hold indeed, or I should not be here, that we may be of
some service at any rate to each other. I think that anything which
stimul