The Rational Or Scientific Ideal of Morality Containing a Theory of Cognition
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With the finer organism, and the power of rational self-deter- mination in man, appears the tendency, unshared by the lower animals, to voluntarily specialize the development of the faculties of body and mind according to, or in the direction of, individual idiosyncrasy. This is particularly the result of reflective, co-ordinating reason. " External co- ordination, through custom, can only be preserved by means of some system of outward positive institutions. But self- culture, in any particula...r direction, is the great agent in specialization of development. " Both customs and language should be such as to form " stepping-stones to higher things, " instead of being, as they often are, dead checks in the path of evolution "use and wont" being taken for natural logic, and external practices for religion. The liberty of the individual to be what he is best fitted to be, is the watchword of western civilization. Yet in social institutions but a few sides of human nature are taken into account, and logicians tell us that " it is the bane of ratiocination to treat names, or words that represent but one, or few, aspects of things, as if they comprehended the whole of truth.
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