THE PRESENT EVOLUTION OF MAN— MENTAL 349 



moral code, founded as it is on ignorance and prejudice, 

 productive as it is of much avoidable pain and misery, 

 emblematical as it is of the imperfection of our civiliza- 

 tion, the depth of our barbarism, it is difficult to find 

 words sufficiently expressive of contempt and abhorrence. 



