Re: Occupy Evolution

Jon,
Thank you so much for this.  It couldn't have been more timely.

val



E. Valentine Daniel
Professor of Anthropology
Columbia University New York, NY 10027
USA




On Oct 16, 2011, at 10:22 AM, Jon Awbrey wrote:

> 
> So a miser is a beneficent power in a community, is he?
> With the same reason precisely, only in a much higher degree,
> you might pronounce the Wall Street sharp to be a good angel,
> who takes money from heedless persons not likely to guard it
> properly, who wrecks feeble enterprises better stopped, and
> who administers wholesome lessons to unwary scientific men,
> by passing worthless checks upon them -- as you did, the other
> day, to me, my millionaire Master in glomery, when you thought
> you saw your way to using my process without paying for it, and of
> so bequeathing to your children something to boast about of their
> father -- and who by a thousand wiles puts money at the service of
> intelligent greed, in his own person. Bernard Mandeville, in his
> Fable of the Bees, maintains that private vices of all descriptions
> are public benefits, and proves it, too, quite as cogently as the
> economist proves his point concerning the miser. He even argues, with
> no slight force, that but for vice civilization would never have existed.
> In the same spirit, it has been strongly maintained and is today widely
> believed that all acts of charity and benevolence, private and public,
> go seriously to degrade the human race.
> 
> Charles S. Peirce, "Evolutionary Love",
> 'The Monist', vol. 3, pp. 176-200 (1893)
> 
> http://www.cspeirce.com/menu/library/bycsp/evolove/evolove.htm
> 
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