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ordinates itself to the benefit
Of all, and Selhshness is punished by
reprobation, and perhaps by death.
A love Of appreciation begins to grow,
and those incentives to actions which
the tribe recognize as useful at the same
time make themselves felt. Now in do
ing all this, the savage does not stop to
reason out whether it will be useful to
the tribe or not he does it, most
likely from love of appreciation and
from perhaps other simple motives, that
have grown in like manner The
"utilitarian' philosophy begins even
here to fail.
Granting, then, the genesis Of the
moral faculty in the way, OF something
like the way have pointed out, let US
follow its full development.
Moral conduct includes the whole
of conduct Although many actions,
perhaps most actions, which every per.
son daily does, are a part of conduct
upon which ethical inquiry does not
pass judgment yet a survey of the en-
tire conduct is necessary to the com.
plete understanding of the moral life.
That life which is the fullest, in which
all the faculties are within due degree
exercised, would be recognized, take
it, as the best, /, {. the most complete.
Duty to ones self, to his family and
to his kingdom is the highest kind OF
duty.
The conduct Of the savage does not
fulfil any one of these requirements
except in limited degree. He is per-
haps concerned almost entirely in per.
forming those actions necessary to self.
preservation. His family comes in for
his care after, and are of secondary i'm
portance. As the tribe advances in
civilization, conduct is greatly Different
ated-its completely increasing as
civilization increases. Note also, what
the difference is between what is deemed
moral in the savage, and that called so
in the civilized man The immediate
good is always the greatest good with
the savage. Nothing more distin-
guishes the highly civilized man than
the subordination of present gratfca.
ton to future good--an evolution OF
conduct which the savage could not I'M
derstand, neither could it be of use to
him. Now, in the constant develop
mont of civilization, do we not no.
tlce concomltant evolution of con
duct-answering outwardly to cores
ponding moral faculty within ? So that
which has been found useful-that
kind of conduct which has been condu-
Give to the fullest life OF all, becomes
registered organically in the moral fac
ulty of the race, and this evolution
recognizes as the inherent moral in,ui-
ton"
In conclusion let me say this doc
trine of derivative morals holds out the
highest hopes for humanity. 1t dis
tinctly discards utiitarianism. 1t most
emphatically enjoins ,isM conduct, as
distinguished from expedient conduct
1t points out to humanity the unerring
certainty of punishment going along
with wrong action and wrong doing, and
as Mr.. Evarts well said, at the dinner
given to Mr.. Spencer in New York /;
ave must all agree that it is practical
(the knowledge given by evolution), that
it is benevolent, that it is serious, that
it is reverent that it aims at the high
est results in virtue ; that it treats evil
not as eternal, but as evanescent, and
that II expects to arrive at what is
sought through faith in emilleinnium
that condition of affairs in which there
is the highest morality, and the great
est happiness. And if we can come to
that by these processes and these in
structions, II matters little to the race
whether it be called scientific morality
and mathematical freedom, or by less
pretentious name. M N. .StoX. in
Hauaiidn Months.