EVOLUTION THE MASTER-KEY 



respect, make fear of man include love of appro 

 bation, and ask yourself whether respect for public 

 opinion (which may include the opinion of those 

 you love), self-respect, and custom are not the 

 main factors of your volition in matters of morals. 

 They certainly are of mine. 



If we accept this, we are on the way to formu 

 lating the principles of moral education on deter- 

 minist lines. We shall seek to bring a healthy pub 

 lic opinion to bear on the subject of our efforts 

 the public opinion of the home circle, of the school, 

 of the market-place. When public opinion ranks 

 collective theft, &quot;all uncharitableness,&quot; and ma 

 licious gossip beside incest and burglary, the young 

 generation will be receiving a better education than 

 hitherto. Vanity, &quot;proper pride,&quot; if Schopen 

 hauer be right, will be recognized as closely allied 

 to self-respect; and we shall regard it as a great 

 part of education to teach a child to have a &quot; guid 

 conceit of himself,&quot; not of his head, but of his 

 heart. And as to custom, what free-will theolo 

 gian but corroborates Schopenhauer by insistence 

 on the importance of forming good habits and 

 avoiding the formation of bad ones ? 



And when we have spoken of self-respect, public 

 respect, and custom, have we not analyzed the 

 &quot;sense of responsibility,&quot; and shown that the de- 

 terminist believes in and prizes it, even though 

 he regards it as no halting and contradictory Vox 

 Dei, but as a natural product of life as we live it ? 



