Henry Mills Alden:A Study of Death
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This historic book may have numerous typos, missing text or index. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. 1895. Not illustrat… More...
This historic book may have numerous typos, missing text or index. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. 1895. Not illustrated. Excerpt: ... CHAPTER II THE MORAL ORDER The term moral is derived from the Latin word mos, meaning custom, and ethical, from a Greek word (tdos) having a similar meaning. Primarily these terms suggest wont, inclination that has become habitual, a spontaneous disposition. This sponta- j^^,5 neity is apparent in the beginnings of a social order and in the first stages of aesthetic development. Human actions, like the operations of Nature, seem to fall into order of themselves, and with reference to some unseen centre of harmony. Choice, instead of being an arbitrary action of the will, is rather a dilection, accordant to the invisible harmony, a natural selection in the subjective sense of the term, a divine motion and passion, having also natural inhibition or restraint, corresponding to the modulation and temperament of the cosmic order. Nothing in the human world is vitalised save by the divine action and passion, and the vitality is not an endowment, it is genetic. In this view the problem concerning Free-will could not occur. We do not question whether the flower turns to the sun or the sun turns the flower, when these are seen not as two motions but as parts of one. In the complex specialisation of the moral order this spontaneity is more and more hidden and apparently contradicted in the prominence given to arbi lhsetadegdlrdrd trarv selection- In the Latin word mos there is the suggestion of measure (from the old root ma), so that one comes to say of his habitual conduct that it is not only his wont, but his rule; and in the social evolution the individual comes under a rule not his own, to which both his inclination and his reason may be subjected. The tendency is to substitute for flexible principle the inflexible rule. As the individual artificer works with pl... Henry Mills Alden, Books, Social and Cultural Studies, A Study of Death Books>Social and Cultural Studies This is an OCR edition without illustrations or index. It may have numerous typos or missing text. However, purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original rare book from the publisher's website (GeneralBooksClub.com). You can also preview excerpts of the book there. Purchasers are also entitled to a free trial membership in the General Books Club where they can select from more than a million books without charge. Original Published by: Boston and New York, Pub. by Houghton, Mifflin and company; (etc., etc.) in 1895 in 357 pages; Subjects: Death; Immortality; Family<
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Henry Mills Alden:Study of Death
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