230* CEREMONIAL INSTITUTIONS. 



Of course tlie change will be, and should be, gradual. 

 Just as, if political freedom is gained faster than men be 

 come adequately self-controlled, there results social dis 

 order just as abolition of religious restraints while yet 

 moral restraints have not grown strong enough, entails 

 increase of misconduct; so, if the observances regulating so 

 cial intercourse lose their sway faster than the feelings 

 which prompt true politeness develop, there inevitably fol 

 lows more or less rudeness in behaviour and consequent 

 liability to discord. It needs but to name certain of our 

 lower classes, such as colliers and brickmakers, whose rela 

 tions to masters and others are such as to leave them scarcely 

 at all restrained, to see that considerable evils arise from a 

 premature decay of ceremonial rule. 



The normal advance toward that highest state in which 

 the minor acts of men towards one another, like their major 

 acts, are so controlled by internal restraints as to make ex 

 ternal restraints needless, implies increasing fulfilment of 

 two conditions. Both higher emotions and higher intelli 

 gence are required. There must be a stronger fellow feel 

 ing with all around, and there must be an intelligence devel 

 oped to the extent needful for instantly seeing how all words 

 and acts will tell upon their states of mind an intelligence 

 which, by each expression of face and cadence of speech, is 

 informed what is the passing state of emotion, and how 

 emotion has been affected by actions just committed. 



