14 SCIENCE AND MORALS 



did not pause to consider that the sins which 

 make life pleasant to some (for example, Thuggery) 

 are apt to have quite another aspect to those 

 through whose victimisation the pleasure is 

 obtained. There is also here such a thing as the 

 conscience, which has to be taken into account. 

 Even the biological hedonist must originally 

 possess such a thing and, it may be supposed, 

 must deal with it as he would with the gravely 

 diseased children, and as something which would 

 " predominantly control his powers of enjoy- 



ment.' 



Seriously, it may be doubted if a more pagan 

 code of morals has ever been laid down, and this 

 in the Encyclical of Science for the year, a code 

 bad enough to make poor Mendel turn in his 

 grave could he good, honest man be aware of 

 it, and imagine that he was in any way responsible 

 for it, which, by the way, is in no way the case. 



2. SCIENCE AS A RULE OF LIFE 



Saint or sinner, some rule of life we must have, 

 even if we are wholly unconscious of the fact. A 

 spiritual director will help us to map out a course 

 of action which will assist us to shake off some 

 little of the dust of this dusty world ; and a doctor 

 will lay down for us a dietary which will help us 

 to elude, for a time at least, the insidious onsets 

 of the gout. Even if we take no formal steps, 

 spiritual or corporeal, some rule of life we must 

 achieve for ourselves. We must, for example, 



