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they do amiss because of failure to think straight 

 and carefully. Absolute goods will fall into the 

 background, but the question of making more sure 

 and extensive the share of all men in natural and 

 social goods will be urgent, a problem not to be 

 escaped nor evaded. 



Morals, philosophy, returns to its first love ; love 

 of the wisdom that is nurse, as nature is mother, 

 of good. But it returns to the Socratic principle 

 equipped with a multitude of special methods of in 

 quiry and testing; with an organized mass of 

 knowledge, and with control of the arrangements 

 by which industry, law, and education may concen 

 trate upon the problem of the participation by all 

 men and women, up to their capacity of absorption, 

 in all attained values. Morals may then well leave 

 to poetry and to art, the task (so unartistically 

 performed by philosophy since Plato) of gathering 

 together and rounding out, into one abiding pic 

 ture, the separate and special goods of life. It 

 may leave this task with the assurance that the re 

 sultant synthesis will not depict any final and all- 

 inclusive good, but will add just one more specific 

 good to the enjoyable excellencies of life. 



Humorous irony shines through most of the 

 harsh glances turned towards the idea of an ex 

 perimental basis and career for morals. Some 

 shiver in the fear that morals will be plunged into 

 anarchic confusion a view well expressed by a 



