It will not show us how to clip the yew-tree into a peacock.

Morality, it is true, must rest ultimately on the proved facts of sociology; and this is not only true but evident.

But it rests upon them as a statue rests upon its pedestal, and the same pedestal will support an Athene or a Priapus.
The matter, however, is not yet altogether disposed of.

The type of personal happiness that social morality postulates, as a whole, we have still to seek for.

But a part of it, as I just pointed out, will, beyond doubt, be a _willing_ obedience by each to the rules that make it in its entirety within the reach of all.