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principle is established, always rests in the last 

 resort on the displacement of the lower standards 

 of ethics by the higher. The character of this 

 development in which the higher standards in 

 ethics are displacing the lower has never been more 

 illuminatingly summarized than in a brief sentence 

 by Green. The command in human conduct, 

 Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself, has never 

 varied, said Green in effect ; all that has varied in 

 the upward progress of humanity is " the practical 

 answer to the question, Who is my neighbour ? " l 



Progress in ethics is, in short, to be described as 

 the gradual extension of the reach of the other- 

 regarding emotions till it includes the universal. 

 The reasoning capacity of mind has no part in 

 this world-shaping transition. The principal in- 

 strument of Power accomplishing the development 

 has consisted always and altogether in qua ities 

 of emotion which have their chief expression in the 

 mind of woman. God is the highest concept to 

 which mind is carried by the emotion of the ideal. 

 The command, Thou shalt love the Lord thy God 

 with all thy heart and with all thy soul and with 

 all thy mind, is the highest term of the command- 

 ment, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself. 



It will be seen at no distant date that the funda- 



T. H. Green, Prolegomena to Ethics, chap. iii. 207. 



