02 MANNERS AND FASHION. 



And thus life a la 9node, instead of being life conducted in 

 the most rational manner, is life regulated by spendthrifts 

 and idlers, milliners and tailors, dandies and silly women. 



To these several corollaries — that the various orders of 

 control exercised over men have a common origin and a 

 common function, are called out by co-ordinate necessitiea 

 and co-exist in like stringency, decline together and corrupt 

 together — it now only remains to add that they become need- 

 less together. Consequent as all kinds of government are 

 upon the unfitness of the aboriginal man for social life ; and 

 diminishing in coerciveness as they all do in projDortion as this 

 unfitness diminishes ; they must one and all come to an end as 

 humanity acquires complete adaptation to its new conditions. 

 That discipline of circumstances which has already wrought 

 out such great changes in us, must go on eventually to 

 work out yet greater ones. That daily curbing of the low- 

 er nature and culture of the higher, which out of cannibals 

 and devil worshippers has evolved philanthropists, lovers 

 of peace, and haters of superstition, cannot fail to evolve out 

 of these, men as much superior to them as they are to their 

 progenitors. The causes that have produced past modifica- 

 tions are still in action ; must continue in action as long as 

 there exists any incongruity between man's desires and the 

 requirements of the social state ; and must eventually make 

 him organically fit for the social state. As it is now need- 

 less to forbid man-eating and Fetishism, so will it ultimate- 

 ly become needless to forbid murder, theft, and the minor 

 offences of our criminal code. When human nature has 

 grown into conformity with the moral law, there will need 

 no judges and statute-books; when it spontaneously takes 

 the right course in all things, as in some things it does al- 

 ready, prospects of future reward or punishment will not 

 be wanted as incentives ; and when fit behaviour has become 

 instinctive, there will need no code of ceremonies to say 

 how behaviour shall be regulated. 



