The Temptations of Evolutionary Ethics by Paul Lawrence Farber

Author:Paul Lawrence Farber [Farber, Paul Lawrence]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: University of California Press
Published: 2010-12-26T10:29:25.484000+00:00

[11] Ibid., 207.

[12] Ibid., 309.

[13] Ibid., 141.

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Woods Hutchinson

Seemingly more closely tied to the spirit of Darwinism was Woods Hutchinson, a physician and popular American medical writer and author of The Gospel According to Darwin (1898). Hutchinson wrote a series of books at the turn of the century advocating a modern, secular, "natural" approach to health, which stressed the value of fresh air, cold sponge baths, exercise, sanitation, sunshine, and common sense. He abhorred follies (old or modern) such as corsets, fashionably tight shoes for women, and the new aesthetic of slenderness ("fat is nature's savings bank").[14] He likewise opposed the various health food fads of the time as well as body-building exercises.[15] As a champion of modernism, he argued that the alleged "new diseases" of civilization were the result of old diseases and barbaric conditions (chiefly, lack of proper sanitation). To the claim that slums and overcrowding bred disease, his response was, "The remedy for the evils of civilization is more civilization!"[16] Engineering, government inspection, education, and industrialization were leading man to a higher level of progress than ever before.

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