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, "all uncharitableness," and ma- 

 licious gossip beside incest and burglary, the young 

 generation will be receiving a better education than 

 hitherto. Vanity, "proper pride," 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 " guid 

 conceit of himself," 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 

 "sense of responsibility," 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 ? 



