CHAPTER IV 



SPECIALIZED LIFE 



It becomes apparent that a rule of conduct if established 

 as a principle by fitness for race survival, and received in 

 good faith as a guide to mortality, is not to be abandoned 

 for expediency, or used only as a way of access to benefits 

 deferred. The conception of a principle of moral human 

 conduct, as compared with a mere law of animal life, is that 

 humanity has by reason of intelligence an abiding faith in 

 the principle, which carries it through situations of doubt, 

 or of evident immediate damage, with a steadfastness of 

 purpose which is reposed upon a knowledge of values higher 

 than those visible at the moment. The natural law does not 

 appeal. It simply awards consequences and allows free 

 choice. But the human intellectual aspiration appeals in 

 communicated sentiment. In consciousness and language 

 it cries for the brotherly support of that common good which 

 arose in the primitive absolute community of interest. It 

 is an appeal for a return toward that community of interest 

 which was neglected only under compulsion, and is now to be 

 more and more resumed upon opportunity. 



The faithful and instinctive adherence to the principle 



thus described provokes new phases of its action. It seems 



that reason is not to be the supreme guide but is to be co- 



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