CHAPTER IV. 



OBJECTIONS TO THE EVOLUTION ETHICS. 



1. THEEE are some who apprehend from the whole new 

 teaching, and especially from the Darwinian theory of 

 the descent of man and of the origin of morals, something 

 if possible more serious than the dethronement of a 

 personal Ruler, the destruction, namely, of conscience, 

 His last voice and representative on earth, of the moral 

 law that the German transcendental philosophy, which 

 destroyed so much else, had anew pronounced sacred. 



There are those who are now becoming anxious for 

 the fate of virtue itself, whose inmost essence and dearest 

 life seem threatened by the doctrines of science. There 

 is a deepening fear in desponding moments, at the hearts 

 of men who are just and true and good, that the great 

 ideal lights and guiding beacons of Truth and Justice 

 and Benevolence are soon to be extinguished in the 

 moral heavens; that, together with Religion, Morality 

 also is about to receive her quietus; that along with 

 faith and hope in a hereafter of compensation for so 

 much amiss here, that which is greater than either faith 

 or hope, namely, charity, the disinterested love and 

 labour for others, or for our kind, will slowly die in the 

 hearts of men from the chilling, by the sciences economic 

 and sociological, of the internal heat that supported it, 



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