It will perform none of those functions for which they now look to it.

It will no longer supply them, as now, with any special pinnacle on which human life may raise itself.

The one type of it that is at present on an eminence will sink to the same level as the others.

All these will be offered to us indiscriminately, and our choice between them will have no moral value.
None of the ethical epithets by which these varieties are at present so sharply distinguished from each other will have any virtue left in them.
Morality in this connection will be a word without a meaning.
I have as yet dealt only with one of those resources, which have been supposed to impart to life a positive general value.

This one, however, has been the most important and the most comprehensive of all; and its case will explain that of the others, and perhaps, with but few exceptions, include them.