674 Causes and Course of Okganic Evolution 



even learn so far to understand them, then gradually transfer 

 personal attributes to some of the more important of these. 



But, with the advent of Friday on the island, the social and 

 so the moral instincts would develop, aided also by hereditary 

 lines of easy transmission of energy-flow for moral stimulation. 

 Mental and religious acts therefore concern the individual, 

 moral acts link him for good with the social organism. 



x\dvancing human morality then, up to the highest stage 

 that man has already reached, has represented varied external 

 stimuli, established bv social interaction between human or- 

 ganisms, which have started and effected cumulating com- 

 plexity of, and rapid resultant intercommunication between, 

 the cogitic substance of ganglionic cells in the brain. But 

 such have by no means started with the human organism. 

 Hereditarily, moral acts can be traced far down the animal 

 scale, for only unscientific bigotry would deny the exact moral 

 value of many acts of vertebrate and invertebrate organisms. 



So, when the attempt is made to trace, in some area of the 

 brain of average civilized man, a recognizable development 

 of brain tissue associated with the moral function, it might 

 well be expected that such may be centered in some region 

 that is already more or less 'developed in the beaver, the ele- 

 plant, and social monkeys, as well as primitive man, since 

 all of them show varying degrees of moral correlating functions. 



But detailed knowledge of the cerebral centers is still too 

 imperfect to permit a more exact location of the higher moral 

 functions. Furthermore the quantity and quality of morality 

 exhibited by many "distinguished" personalities are often 

 greatly less, or of a more unstable and mixed kind, than is 

 that of individuals of humble rank. Improved methods of 

 observation and experiment however may yet yield results of 

 highest and lasting value. 



