76 INTELLIGENCE AND MORALS 



unrationality. Where the pressure is greatest 

 in the habitual practice of the political and eco 

 nomic chieftains there it accommodates the most. 



Class-codes of morals are sanctions, under the 

 caption of ideals, of uncriticised customs ; they are 

 recommendations, under the head of duties, of what 

 the members of the class are already most given 

 to doing. If there are to obtain more equable and 

 comprehensive principles of action, exacting a 

 more impartial exercise of natural power and re 

 source in the interests of a common good, members 

 of a class must no longer rest content in responsi 

 bility to a class whose traditions constitute its 

 conscience, but be made responsible to a society 

 whose conscience is its free and effectively organ 

 ized intelligence. 



In such a conscience alone will the Socratic in 

 junction to man to know himself be fulfilled. 



