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may be emotional perception and instinctive regard for 

 morality in unintellectual life without self -perception; a 

 morality of love and faith, which persists, and is in no 

 wise lowered, by understanding. But that knowledge of 

 good and evil which constitutes human morality is a con- 

 scious foreknowledge and purpose, while the emotional af- 

 fection for good is an unconscious surviving affinity. 



The intellectual morality must build upon this without 

 superseding it — must explain it and in such explanation en- 

 large it. The function of morality is the perception of the 

 value of conduct in its remote effects, and any true growth 

 must extend or clarify it. There can be no growth achieved 

 in a lessening or narrowing of perception. Therefore the 

 search in reason for an understanding of conduct must not 

 be destructive of previous instinctive perception, but con- 

 structive in its own wider field. Renewed effort must be 

 made to follow these inquiries into the sphere of that greater 

 life, where those relations of dual nature may be further 

 comprehended. Life must be viewed as not only the func- 

 tion of an individual creature, but in great part the function 

 of a phase of being which inspires several individuals at once 

 with a community of interest. 



