Progressive Morality An Essay in Ethics

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These pages represent an attempt to exhibit a scientific conception of
morality in a popular form, and with a view to practical applications
rather than the discussion of theoretical difficulties.  For this purpose
it has been necessary to study brevity and avoid controversy.  Hence, I
have made few references to other authors, and I have almost altogether
dispensed with foot-notes.  But, though I have attempted to state rather
than to defend my views, I believe that they are, in the main, those
which, making exception for a few back eddies in the stream of modern
thought, are winning their way to general acceptance among the more
instructed and reflective men of our day.