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Books and Habits from the Lectures of Lafcadio Hearn

CHAPTER IX
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Being better able to control himself under all circumstances, he has a great advantage over the savage.
That which is going on in the new teaching of ethics is really the substitution of a rational for an emotional morality.

But this does not mean that the value of the emotional element in morality is not recognized.

Not only is it recognized, but it is even being enlarged--enlarged, however, in a rational way.

For example, let us take the very emotional virtue of loyalty.

Loyalty, in a rational form, could not exist among an uneducated people; it could only exist as a feeling, a sentiment.


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