Preface 



gested in ** The Defence of Criminals " has now 

 been traced more positively in the chapter on 

 ** The New Morality " inserted at the end of 

 the present volume. Morality has at last to become 

 truly human, and the real expression of our organic 

 need. Man has to be liberated from the cramps 

 and suppressions and fixations which have hitherto 

 paralysed him in the moral field. He has to 

 emerge from the swathing bands of his pupal stage 

 into the free air of heaven, and to become in 

 the highest sense self-determining and creative. 



Thus three things, (i) the realisation of a new 

 order of Society, in closest touch with Nature, 

 and in which the diseases of class-domination and 

 Parasitism will have finally ceased ; (2) the realisa- 

 tion of a Science which will no longer be a mere 

 thing of the brain, but a part of Actual Life ; 

 and (3) the realisation of a Morality which will 

 signalise and express the vital and organic unity 

 of man with his fellows — these three things will 

 become the heralds of a new era of humanity — 

 an era which will possibly prefer not to call itself 

 by the name of Civilisation. 



In order to corroborate and confirm the first 

 paper in the book an Appendix has now been 

 added containing notes and data on the life and 

 customs of many " uncivilised " peoples ; for 

 much of which Appendix I am indebted to the 

 assistance of my widely-read and resourceful 

 friend, E. Bertram Lloyd. 



E. C. 



December f 1920. 



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