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capacity and light, to make things clear and get rid 

 of cant and shams of all sorts." 



Moral Purpose. — " Of moral purpose I see no 

 trace in Nature. That is an article of exclusively 

 human manufacture — and very much to our credit." 



Actions, Sinful and Virtuous. — " The actions we 

 call sinful are as much the consequence of the order 

 of nature as those we call virtuous. They are part 

 and parcel of the struggle for existence through which 

 ftU living things have passed, and they have become 

 sins because man alone seeks a higher life in volun- 

 tary association." 



Promotion by Seniority. — " Cceieris paribus, or with 

 even approximate equality of qualifications, no doubt 

 seniority ought to count ; but it is mere ruin to any 

 service to let it interfere with the promotion of men 

 of marked superiority, especially in the case of offices 

 which involve much responsibihty." 



Moral Duty. — " Moral duty consists in the observ- 

 ance of those rules of conduct which contribute to 

 the welfare of society, and by imphcation of the 

 individuals who compose it. 



" The end of society is peace and mutual protection, 

 so that the individual may reach the fullest and highest 

 life attainable by man. The rules of conduct by 

 which this end is to be attained are discoverable — 

 like the other so-called laws of Nature — by observa- 

 tion and experiment, and only in that way." 



A University. — " It is an institution in which a 

 man who claims to devote himself to Science or Art, 

 should be able to find some one who can teach him 

 what_is^alpea4y_kno^\'n, and trajn him in tl>e methods 

 of knoTving more." 



On Tennyson. — " He was the only modern poet, in 



