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...Royce first summed up the results of the previous lecture and illustrated them more fully, closing these illustrations by a statement of what is suggested as the ultimate moral principle, which is in the form of a maxim: Act as thou wouldst be minded to act if all the consequences of thy act, for all conscious beings, in so far as such consequences can be foreseen, were to be realized for thy self at the next moment. That is to say, that morality is defined as a perfectly impersonal view of all conscious life and as action based upon such...
Then in answer to this question, first, all those views were excluded from consideration which lay stress on rewards and punishments as sanctions of the moral law. What is done for reward is, in so far, not a positively moral act. The real world offers support to true morality only in so far as it can show us that we are not alone when we try to act morally. If something in nature tends to realize genuine morality, then this something may show us a religious aspect of nature. For religion seeks in nature for something that gives support...
...keen-witted criticism of Mephistopheles. Experience, in short, teaches everybody finally that as an individual he is of no importance, and that his only worth lies in quiet, submissive union with all conscious beings, in so far as he has anything to do with them. But this is morality, and thus, if our mental growth is simply full enough, it does lead us in the end toward morality. Moral law is in harmony with the laws of mental growth in all cases of completed growth, and thus, however evil the world may be, there is always...
...series of beastly, barbaric, brutal boxing bouts. Those who do not wish to see the bruised, battered, bleeding bodies of the boxers borne to their barracks will please withdraw during the intermission of five minutes now given for that purpose.'" The five minutes passed, but no one withdrew. "The moral of this incident," says the Times, "is that ladies of undoubted culture and refinement can find something to admire and enjoy in spirited bouts of boxing, contested by gentlemen, in a style and spirit at once manly and gentlemanly...
...senior class of Columbia College, New York, have voted that "co-education is undesirable from the educational, social and moral standpoint." The "standpoint" of the Columbia senior seems to be the peaceful posing on the biggest pile of college endowment in America, blandly waving aside the opposite sex as educationally, socially and morally incompatible with his perfect and exclusive enjoyment of a particularly good thing.-[Woman's Journal...