What a nation sows, it will reap. Ubiquitous advertising leads us finally to become oblivious to its existence. Many systems of philosophy have developed piecemeal, with their parts evolving separately in response to particular circumstances. Yet, when one of these systems is viewed after its completion, its parts somehow seem related in a consistent and unifed fashion.
Social morality seeks to enforce outward manifestations of virtue.
It consists in systems of etiquette and in the regulation of conduct. It assumes that the proper emotions will accompany the proper actions. It was once believed that there was a controlling planet, the motion of which was so strong that all of the other planets were ruled by it. Disruption in the orbit of the central planet caused corresponding disruption in the orbits of the lesser planets. We admire a landscape more, not less, after we have reflected that its contour has been shaped over a period of centuries by the excavating forces of rain, wind, and river.