The Developing of Morals 



the Immortal Declaration — "all men are created equal" — 

 began to burn within the hearts of the Revolutionary patriots. 

 These words were either false or the free people were prac- 

 ticing not what they preached. As a consequence of this 

 reasoning, the people of both the North and South began 

 to free their slaves. The government census shows that 

 In the year i860 there were 268,817 free negroes In the 

 Northern States and 247,817 In the Southern States, thus 

 showing that the moral mind of both sections, popula- 

 tion considered, was nearly In an even balance. As a 

 corollary to the Civil War, the age old question between 

 the divine right of kings and the common rights of human- 

 ity was forever settled on American soil. It was not a local 

 or sectional question, but Instead, It was a question of one of 

 the moral thoughts of the ages that had passed through 

 Its evolutionary development and had crystallized into a 

 force that regulates the conduct of human society. 



Marriage Is a social Institution that Is recognized by law 

 or custom by all the peoples, both civilized and uncivilized, 

 throughout the entire world. It is a natural relationship 

 and is the outgrowth of the natural order of sex mating. 

 Its counterpart is found among many other species of the 

 animal kingdom and it has developed out of a primeval 

 habit supplemented by Instinctive laws of altruism. It 

 Involves certain rights and dytles of the parties to the rela- 

 tionship and to the children born of It which the laws and 

 customs of society uphold and enforce. However, these 

 laws and customs have gone through many changes and 

 modifications based on human experiences until they are now 

 far different from what they once were. We are now con- 



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