The Ethics of Progress: Or the Theory and the Practice By Which Civilization Proceeds (Classic Reprint)

There was never a time when the foundations of ethics seemed so obscure as they seem to many thinking people to-day. Strange theories of conduct find currency and win disciples. Moral principles which once seemed fixed are called in question. The moral questions at issue and the problems before civilized man take on a new scale of immensity and seriousness. The design of this book is to set forth a simple, philosophical, and inspiring vital principle, which governs all ethical questions, and ensures the development of noble, useftd, and happy character. The treatment touches the great issues of human life, the significance of conscience, the problem of evil, the supposed antagonism between freedom and necessity. The efl Fort is made to treat such questions without any theological or metaphysical prepossessions, but simply from the study of the facts of consciousness. The main object of the book is practical. The author desires especially to help men in the art of the good life. While he does not believe that the true is the same as the useful, he Relieves that the true and the useful are at last one. The good theory, therore, shows itself good only so far as it is practical.
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