...environment, self-coercion, like every other form of coercion, tends to disappear. We are brought to the " conclusion, which will be to most very startling,...and will diminish as fast as moralisation increases ". " Evidently, then," we are told, "with complete adaptation to the social state, that element in...

...predominant does it lose this associated consciousness — only then does the feeling of obligation fade. This remark implies the tacit conclusion, which will...obligation is transitory, and will diminish as fast as moralization increases. Startling though it is, this conclusion may be satisfactorily defended. Even...

...predominant does it lose this associated consciousness — only then does the feeling of obligation fade. This remark implies the tacit conclusion, which will...obligation is transitory, and will diminish as fast as moralization increases. Startling though it is, this conclusion may be satisfactorily defended. Even...

...predominant does it lose this associated consciousness — only then does ! the feeling of obligation fade. This remark implies the tacit conclusion, which will...most very startling, that the sense of duty or moral obli- | ' gationjsjransitory, and will diminish as fast as moralization increases. Startling though...

...that the sense of duty or moral obligation is transitory, and will diminish as fast as moralization increases. Startling though it is, this conclusion...defended. Even now progress towards the implied ultimate state is traceable. The observation is not infrequent that persistence in performing a duty ends in...

...of obligation fades" (p. 127). This leads to "the tacit conclusion," which, as Mr. Spencer says, " will be to most very startling, that the sense of...obligation is transitory, and will diminish as fast as moralization increases" (p. 127). Under such a view moral obligation, which has been hitherto deemed...

...independent spirits, for all action will be natural and easy. As our great thinker says so profoundly : " The sense of duty or moral obligation is transitory and will diminish as fast as moralization increases." Herbert Spencer's Ethics will certainly be the final ethics. But the question...

...self-perpetuation. On the question of " Duty " at all events, Mr. Herbert Spencer l gives no uncertain sound. " This remark implies the tacit conclusion which will...is, this conclusion may be satisfactorily defended. Evidently, with complete adaptation to the social state, that element in the moral consciousness which...

...self-perpetuation. On the question of " Duty " at all events, Mr. Herbert Spencer l gives no uncertain sound. " This remark implies the tacit conclusion which will...is, this conclusion may be satisfactorily defended. Evidently, with complete adaptation to the social state, that element in the moral consciousness which...

...distinct and predominant, it loses its associated consciousness of coercion, and begins to fade. " The sense of duty or moral obligation is transitory,...and will diminish as fast as moralisation increases " (p. 127). " This self-compulsion, which at a relatively-high stage, becomes more and more a substitute...