Man is a product of all the material conditions of life that he encounters on the road from cradle to grave; and the mores, folkways, and religious thinking are but the shadow cast on human behavior by this shifting material basis of the society.
A twentieth-century naturalist constructed the understandable quote above. Naturalists believe that one's heredity and social environment decides one's moral character. They follow the idea that man is only an animal and a product of his genes and his envoronment. Also, they believe in mores, which is defined as the accepted traditional customs and usages of a particular social group, while insisting that as the environment changes, man has to adjust and change according to the environment he or she is in.
Naturalism abides by the thoughts and theories of evolution, which is the change in the inherited traits of a population from one generation to the next. These traits are the expression of genes are copied and passed on to the......
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