It is only those whose knowledge obliges them to see things from another standpoint than that of the masses who can safely claim to base their rule of life upon philosophical morality.

The value of the philosophical morality happens to be only in those directions where it recognizes and supports the truth taught by common morality, which, after all, is the safest guide.
Therefore the philosophical moralist will never mock or oppose a belief which he knows to exercise a good influence upon human conduct.

He will recognize even the value of many superstitions as being very great; and he will understand that any attempt to suddenly change the beliefs of man in any ethical direction must be mischievous.

Such changes as he might desire will come; but they should come gradually and gently, in exact proportion to the expanding capacity of the national mind.

Recognizing this probability, several Western countries, notably America, have attempted to introduce into education an entirely new system of ethical teaching--ethical teaching in the broadest sense, and in harmony with the new philosophy.