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greater the intelligence is, the higher are the morals. 

 Very significantly progress in the moral life is more \ 

 visible and measurable than it is in the intellectual 

 life. Hence the test of human progress is not so 

 much that the intellect becomes more acute as that 

 the moral faculty becomes more sensitive and more 

 imperative. And, may we not say, if the test of pro- 

 gress is morality, the test of improved morality is 

 increased kindliness kindliness to the body, to the 

 opinion, to the feeling, to the property of others. 

 It is true that veracity is the heart of morality but 

 kindliness is its crown. The degrees of our intellectual 

 power, as well as the amount of our intellectual acqui- 

 sition, are not on a par with the rightness of our 

 conduct, because they are not so needful to life. Our 

 achievement in the moral world is greater than our 

 achievement in the intellectual and bodily worlds. 

 To expand a saying of Goethe's, it is easy to behave 

 properly ; it is difficult to think correctly. 



Moral nerve or moral tissue is present, it may be 

 repeated, in all living things. Morality is more of the 

 negative sort in the lower forms of life, and more of 

 the positive in higher forms. The immoral wolf, the 

 wolf of less moral nerve, of nerve less submissive to 

 the well-being of the pack, is driven out. The ele- 

 phants, having ampler intellectual nerve, and ampler 

 moral nerve, have also a sort of reasoned-out and more 

 positive code. In marching the males go to the front 

 and put the females and young in the rear. The 

 morally indifferent and morally disobedient elephant is 

 expelled from the herd. Ejected wolves and elephants, 

 as do all sentient creatures, suffer the penalties of 

 insufficient, or perverted, or non-adjustable moral 

 nerve. 



