CHAPTER X 



VARIABLE IDEALS 



Humanity, as it exists, is found to be an aggregate, 

 seeking unity in organization, obeying impulses due to the 

 fact that its members are co-related in a common origin, as 

 of one species; and governed by the same natural laws. 

 During centuries and ages, generations and races have 

 pursued different courses of evolution under differing 

 circumstances; and have reached such different conditions 

 that it is scarcely credible that the same law has applied to 

 all. The variations, cultivated in obedience to necessity, 

 have been by nature chosen for preference in survival under 

 entirely different environments, and even under different 

 natural systems. And the result of this long continued 

 growth in separate series, is a number of distinct schools 

 or variants of morality. The codes and conduct developed 

 in some places by success, are methods of life which in 

 another place have been by nature suppressed for failure. 

 The things which prevail in any one country are different 

 from those dominating in another ; manners which represent 

 the progress of centuries in isolation, stand insufficient 

 when that isolation gives way to a wider contact with other 

 humankind. 



In the sudden extension of human travel, and interchange 



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