...with the higher order of activity. Accordingly Herbert Spencer defines ethics in the following terms:' Ethics has for its subject-matter that form which...assumes during the last stages of its evolution.'" The relation of morals to religion is so intimate and vital that nothing which affects moral conduct...

...Accordingly Herbert Spencer defines Ethics by reference to its subject-matter in the following terms : " Ethics has for its subject-matter that form which...conduct assumes during the last stages of its evolution" (p. 20). So far this statement only affirms that ethical action is the highest type of action — a...

...further truth that to understand conduct at large we must understand the evolution of conduct, we hare been led to see that ethics has for its subject-matter...universal conduct assumes during the last stages of ita evolution. We have also concluded that these last stages in the evolution of conduct are those...

...end. This is only possible in peaceful societies and only in them can evolution attain its limit. " Ethics has for its subject-matter that form which...universal conduct assumes during the last stages of evolution." Good conduct is that by which men attain to the completest life. The view here unfolded...

...the most acute among modern philosophers, gives expression to this idea in the following passage : s. "We have, also, concluded that these last stages in...being when he is forced by increase of numbers to live and move in presence of his fellows. And thus has followed the corollary that conduct gains ethical...

...and " they only." It is allowed that it iftust be unnumbered ages before there can be such actions. " Ethics has for its subject-matter that form which...universal conduct assumes during the last stages of evolution," " these last stages in the evolution of being when man SPENCER'S "DATA OF ETHICS." 633...

...and without detriment to our argument we may follow his example. Ethics, .according to Mr. Spencer, "has for its subjectmatter that form which universal...assumes during the last stages of its evolution." "Acts are called good or bad according as they are well or ill adjusted to ends." In the ethical sense,...

...inconsistent with the principle from which, as has been secu, Mr. Spencer starts, that a treatise on Ethics " has for its subjectmatter that form which...universal conduct assumes during the last stages of evolution" (p. 20). We are introduced to an entirely new form of conduct, a conduct in antithesis —...

...Spencer defines Ethics by reference to its subject-matter in the following terms : " Ethics has for it» subject-matter that form which universal conduct assumes during the last stages of its evolution" (p. 20). So far this statement only affirms that ethical action is the highest type of action — a...

...evolution is reached when " the members of a society give mutual help in the achievement of ends ;" " ethics has for its subject-matter that form which...conduct assumes during the last stages of its evolution ;" hence "conduct gains ethical sanction in proportion as. the activities . . . consist with, and are...