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which makes them jnst as much inherent in the 

 environment as in ns. What I do depends on my 

 capacity for loving, and on the objects of love 

 which are presented to me. 



One may end here with the real and valuable 

 political truth which lies behind the scorn thrown 

 on environment. Mere environment is truly of very 

 little account compared with the presentation to us 

 of objects which we are prepared to love. If the 

 instinct for bodily comfort is not yet so developed 

 and reined as to find satisfaction in cleanliness, it 

 may be of little use to provide the man with chances 

 of cleanliness. On the other hand, it may at the 

 right time be just the chance for which the develop- 

 ment of the instinct was waiting. The difference 

 betAveen those improvements of environment which 

 are thus worth while and those which are not worth 

 while is a matter for the most careful, patient, and 

 long-suffering study and experiment. As students 

 of moral science we hope for the greatest help from 

 students of natural science, only they must not 

 encourage us to slur distinctions, to draw easy 

 a priori conclusions, or to commit in any way those 

 sins of rough and careless work from which in 

 their OAvn department they have so nobly forborne. 



