What Thomas Henry Huxley thinks about behavioural science

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English biologist and advocate of Darwin's theory (1825 to 1895); author of Evolution and Ethics.

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1. c. 1893–1894

   Our readingFear of other people's opinion, more than of the law, is the greatest restraint on antisocial behaviour

   Their wordsIt is needful only to look around us, to see that the greatest restrainer of the anti-social tendencies of men is fear, not of the law, but of the opinion of their fellows.

   ↗Evolution and Ethics: Prolegomena and Romanes Lecture (1893-1894)gutenberg.org All 17 from this book