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which the Tightness Hes in the increased efficiency of the 

 social machine; and that the individual energies, conducted 

 aright in freedom, are capable of higher achievement than 

 the same energies would be in the same course under com- 

 pulsion. Now this phase of progress we see effectively and 

 rapidly proceeding; so that, as its influence spreads, civilized 

 men become in co-operation stronger against the adversities 

 of nature and of barbarism. This advance is an intellecual 

 evolution, that is to say a variation, by increase and spread 

 of mental power of perception. Morality of that kind which 

 begets right conduct, in subjects under the influence of faith 

 and love, with but small intellectual capacity, may exist and 

 operate in a controlled type of patriarchal conduct, but the 

 right conduct of freedom, arising in the cultivation of intel- 

 lectual power in all the subjects of it, instead of in a few 

 masters or leaders, is obviously a higher type which pre- 

 serves the previous one, within a grander unit of greater 

 capacity. 



When we consider these tendencies we must perceive that 

 the present activity of human evolution is directed less to 

 the grosser physical equipment, and more to that qualification 

 which separates man from all the rest of nature by a wide 

 pre-eminence, that is the mental power of self-conscious 

 morality; and the perception of it. And at the same time 

 we must see that there is nothing in this pre-eminence, which 

 justifies satisfaction with it as a permanent condition, or 

 which promises the endurance of its privileges except in 

 continued growth. 



