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ment upon human nature has been tried ; a 

 new discovery of its properties has been the 

 result. 



That these moral elements, on the other hand, 

 must have a beginning somewhere in space and 

 time is certain enough. Not less necessary to the 

 world than the Mother's gift of Love is the twin 

 offering of the Father — Righteousness. And if, 

 almost before the soul is born, the shadowy outline 

 of a moral order should begin to loom out in his- 

 tory, the later phases and the later sanctions lose 

 nothing of their quality, are all the more wonderful 

 and all the more divine, because met by moral 

 adumbrations in the distant past. If the later 

 children had their ten commandments given them 

 in one way, they cannot grudge that the world's 

 earlier children should have been given their two 

 or three commandments in another way — another 

 way which, nevertheless, did we know all, might 

 turn out to be but another phase of the same 

 way. But it is impossible even to approach the 

 Evolution of Morality until we have carried Man 

 some stages further up his Ascent. It is only 

 when he reaches the social stage, when he becomes 

 aggregated into clans, tribes, and nations, that this 

 problem opens. For the present we must content 

 ourselves with having witnessed his arrival in the 



