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Books and Habits from the Lectures of Lafcadio Hearn

CHAPTER VIII
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One more illustration.

Our children have to be educated carefully in regard to what is right or wrong; in the world of which I am speaking, no time would be wasted in any such education, for every child would be born with full knowledge of what is right and wrong.
Or to state the case in psychological language--I mean the language of scientific, not of metaphysical, psychology--we should have a world in which morality would have been transmuted into inherited instinct.

Now again let me put the question: can we imagine such a world?
Perhaps you will answer, Yes, in heaven--nowhere else.

But I answer you that such a world actually exists, and that it can be studied in almost any part of the East or of Europe by a person of scientific training.

The world of insects actually furnishes examples of such a moral transformation.


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