Excerpt from An Ethical System Based on the Laws of Nature When the young generation, whose mind, no less than its body, is in our care, comes knocking at the door and anxiously or mockingly asks us for the sure foundations and sanctions Of right and wrong, seeing that not even the professional teachers Of theological morality now believe the things they say, we must be ready with an appeal to the Supreme Court Of Nature, and with proofs that the laws of right and wrong are the very laws Of life and death. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.