ABSTRACT
This conclusion presents some closing thoughts on the concepts discussed in the preceding chapters of this book. The book shows that the moral sense: from the enduring and ever present nature of the social instincts; from man's appreciation of the approbation and disapprobation of his fellows; and from the high activity of his mental faculties, with past impressions extremely vivid; and in these latter respects he differs from the lower animals. Sexual Selection depends on the success of certain individuals over others of the same sex, in relation to the propagation of the species; whilst Natural Selection depends on the success of both sexes, at all ages, in relation to the general conditions of life. The laws of inheritance determine whether characters gained through Sexual Selection by either sex shall be transmitted to the / same sex, or to both; as well as the age at which they shall be developed.
