02836cam a22003613u 450000100060000000300070000600500170001300600020003000700050003200800410003701000130007804000110009104100170010205000070011910000390012624500320016526400510019730000470024833600260029533700260032133800360034749000320038350000310041550501610044650801650060752014580077253400660223065300200229665300250231683000320234185600580237385600430243177186UtSlPG20260610134804.0mcr n260607r20251925utu|||||o|||||||||||||| d  a25008635  aUtSlPG 7aen2iso639-1 4aBJ1 aPatten, Charles Joseph,d1870-194814aThe passing of the phantoms 1aSalt Lake City, UT :bProject Gutenberg,c2025  a1 online resource :bmultiple file formats  atextbtxt2rdacontent  acomputerbc2rdamedia  aonline resourcebcr2rdacarrier1 aTo-day and to-morrow series  aRelease date is 2025-11-060 aThe reality of evolution -- Evidences of the evolution of mental powers -- Evidences of the evolution of the moral sense -- The evolution of human morality.  aProduced by Donald Cummings and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net (from images made available by the HathiTrust Digital Library).  aThe passing of the phantoms by Charles Joseph Patten is a scientific-philosophical essay written in the early 20th century. It examines how mental capacities and moral feelings evolve from simpler organisms to humans, arguing that morality has natural, biological roots and critiquing supernatural explanations of ethics.

The book moves from evidence for organic and mental evolution—via anatomy, embryology, brain development, and the role of memory—to vivid field anecdotes that reveal attention, imagination, imitation, and admiration in animals (hawks, pigeons, cats, dogs, horses). Patten shows how these faculties can even seed rudimentary superstition. He then traces the moral sense in nature through mutual aid and disciplined social organization (notably in ants and birds), sentinel behavior, mobbing of predators, and surprising forbearance among predators and prey. Turning to humans, he argues that imagination fostered belief in spirits and dualism through dreams, which grew into animism, totemism, and astronomical myths, eventually crystallizing into organized religions. He contrasts a “superstitious” order, guided by external authority and faith, with a “non-superstitious” order rooted in scientific inquiry and agnostic humility, concluding that a sound ethical life is best grounded in evolved social instincts, reason, and a naturalistic reverence for the living world. (This is an automatically generated summary.)  pOriginally published:cNew York: E. P. Dutton & Company, 1925  aAnimal behavior  aEthics, Evolutionary 0aTo-day and to-morrow series4 uhttps://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=wu.8909572363140uhttps://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/77186