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In judging Byron it is impossible to separate his personal from his literary character. And yet a critic's view is very different from that of a moralist. Byron's power was in his personality. He was born into an evil inheritance. His father was Mad Jack of the Guards...
The crying need of our time, he said, is scientific study of ethics. Morality is today challenged on every hand. Nothing stands free from the assault of criticism. To maintain our civilization, we must have a science of right conduct and good character. We might have a science of morality...
Morality is to be considered in two aspects: the study of what is right, custom, according to rule, and the study of what is good, that which serves some great end. In prehistoric times there must have been a creative period to character, when the rule of duty was reflected...
Long monotony of work hurts the character. We can shorten the hours of work of laborers and give rational amusement to them in their leisure. We need moral teachers for the hungry among the people. to teach them the object of life.
After all there is as yet no science of ethics. Few teachers will not admit that rules of right serve for a perfect end, but there is a contention among them as to what is the moral end. There is no science of right conduct and good character but in...