CHAPTER III.
SOCIOLOGY AS THE FOUNDATION OF MORALITY.
Society, says Professor Clifford, is the highest of all organisms;[9] and its organic nature, he tells us, is one of those great facts which our own generation has been the first to state rationally.

It is our understanding of this that enables us to supply morals with a positive basis.

It is, he proceeds, because society is organic, '_that actions which, as individual, are insignificant, are massed together into ...
important movements.

Co-operation or_ band-work _is the life of it_.' And '_it is the practice of band-work_,' he adds, that, unknown till lately though its nature was to us, has so moulded man as '_to create in him two specially human faculties, the conscience and the intellect_;' of which the former, we are told, gives us the desire for the good, and the latter instructs us how to attain this desire by action.

So too Professor Huxley, once more to recur to him, says that that state of man would be '_a true_ civitas Dei, _in which each man's moral faculty shall be such as leads him to control all those desires which run counter to the good of mankind_.' And J.S.Mill, whose doubts as to the value of life we have already dwelt upon, professed to have at last satisfied himself by a precisely similar answer.