Excerpt from Man's Moral Nature: An Essay The Object of this essay is to discuss the moral nature - to point out, in the first place, its general relation to the other groups Of functions belonging to, or rather making up, the individual man, and also its relations to man's environment. Secondly, to show its radical separation from these other groups Of functions; then to attempt to decide Of what organ it is a function - to con sider whether it is a fixed quantity, or whether, like the active nature and the intellectual nature, it is in course Of development. And if the moral nature is progressive, to try to find out what the essential nature Of this progress is - upon what basis the progress itself rests - the direction Of the progress in the past and in the future - its causes - its history - and the law Of it - and to point out the conclusions which can be drawn from this progress as to the character Of the universe in which we live. 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.