Respect for old age, faithfulness to blood revenge, and feudal loyalty are resplendent virtues. Rights are more emphasized than duties. The spirit is cosmopolitan. Pretensions founded on family, or the worthiness of some ancestor, are laughed at. Social grading is on the basis of some present fact -money, efficiency, achievement education, or character.
Language grows by incorporating terms which make their d but as slang.
Customary law is supplemented by legislation. The patriarchate dissolves. Philanthropy is honored. Morality summons the individual to sacrifice himself for certain wide interests - the public, humanity, posterity, race elevation. Its sanction is not divine command, but public opinion, honor, and self-respect.