GENESIS OF MAN, MORALLY 



the organization of experiences of pleasure and 

 pain in the case of each individual. So long as 

 the subject is contemplated from a statical point 

 of view, so long as individual experience is 

 studied without reference to ancestral experi- 

 ence, the follower of Kant can always hold his 

 ground against the follower of Locke, in ethics as 

 well as in psychology. When the Kantian asserts 

 that the intuitions of right and wrong, as well as 

 the intuitions of time and space, are independent 

 of experience, he occupies a position which is 

 impregnable, so long as the organization of ex- 

 periences through successive generations is left 

 out of the discussion. But already, on two oc- 

 casions of supreme importance, we have found 

 the Doctrine of Evolution leading us to a com- 

 mon ground upon which the disciples of Kant 

 and the disciples of Locke can dwell in peace 

 together. We have seen that the experience test 

 and the inconceivability test of truth are, when 

 deeply considered, but the obverse faces of the 

 same thing. We have seen that there is a stand- 

 point from which the experience theory and the 

 intuition theory of knowledge may be regarded 

 as mutually supplementing each other. We 

 shall presently see, in like manner, that the so- 

 called doctrine of utilitarianism and the doctrine 

 of moral intuitions are by no means so incom- 

 patible with one another as may at first appear. 

 As soon as we begin to study the subject dy- 

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