Volume 5, Number 10 · December 23, 1965
The Question of Aggression
By C.H. Waddington
The Natural History of Aggression
edited by J.D. Carthy, edited by F.J. Ebling
Academic Press, 159 pp., $5.00
We are all agreed nowadays that the most important, and the most pressing task facing mankind is to find some way to control or prevent the propensity of large sections of mankind to go to war with one another. But what exactly are the forces that we are trying to control? Has man, as part of his biological nature, anything which it is justified to call an 'aggressive instinct,' and if so, how far can we blame this instinct for the existence of warfare as we know it in the modern world?
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