Robert Mackintosh (1858-1933), in this 1899 book, traces the appeal to biology for human guidance back to the father of sociology, Auguste Comte. He describes how the social implications of biology were newly defined in Darwinism, and finally stated in their most extreme form in Benjamin Kidd's Social Evolution.
Robert Mackintosh, publishing in 1899, traces the connections between biology and sociology from Comte through Darwinism to Kidd's Social Evolution.
