18 ETHICAL ASPECTS OF EVOLUTION 



are reinforced by the sanctions of divine law. Both morality 

 and religion consist most readily with a view of the world 

 of experience which is so far pessimist that it attaches little 

 or no value to the inducements to action which that world 

 has to offer us. Self-assertion, on the other hand, is in 

 separably bound up with the feeling which, when it becomes 

 articulate, expresses itself in theories of optimism. 



