CHAPTER V. 



CONFLICT AND PARTIAL CONCILIATION BETWEEN THE NEW 

 AND OLD ETHICS. 



1. SUCH are the various apprehensions of religious 

 and moral men, such the general spirit and the chief 

 forms of the objections urged to the new morality by the 

 spiritualist, the moral idealist, and . the intuitionalist. 

 Attempts have been made to answer the objections here 

 urged, though I cannot think that the full weight and 

 point of some of them have been fully felt or adequately 

 met by any of the expounders or defenders of evolution 

 in general or the evolution morality in particular. 



Some of the objections urged by the idealist may be 

 without sufficient grounds, some of the apprehensions are 

 doubtless baseless or exaggerated, but nevertheless is 

 there real and just cause of alarm for the future of morals ; 

 and my aim and desire in the remainder of this work is 

 to make some attempt at discriminating between objec- 

 tions resting on real and rational grounds, and those 

 founded chiefly on chimerical fears; as also, in some 

 degree, where such seems possible, to effect a conciliation, 

 or at the least a better understanding of the points at 

 issue between science and morality, or rather between the 

 evolution ethics on the one side, and moral idealism and 

 spiritualism on the other. 



I believe, indeed, what will appear more fully in the 



