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As To Ethics, Unfortunately, We Are Still At Sea. We Never Did Have Any Popular Base For What Little Ethics We Knew, Except The Religious Theories, And Now That Our Faith Is Shaken In Those Theories We Cannot Account For Ethics At All. It Is No Wonder We Behave Badly, We Are Literally Ignorant Of The Laws Of Ethics, Which Is The Simplest Of Sciences, The Most Necessary, The Most Continuously Needed. The Childish Misconduct Of Our 'revolted Youth' Is Quite Equaled By That Of Older People, And Neither Young Nor Old Seem To Have Any Understanding Of The Reasons Why Conduct Is 'good' Or 'bad.

The Religious Need Of The Human Mind Remains Alive, Never More So, But It Demands A Teaching Which Can Be Understood. Slowly An Apprehension Of The Intimate, Usable Power Of God Is Growing Among Us, And A Growing Recognition Of The Only Worth-while Application Of That Power-in The Improvement Of The World.

But Reason Has No Power Against Feeling, And Feeling Older Than History Is No Light Matter.

What We Do Modifies Us More Than What Is Done To Us.

So When The Great Word "mother!" Rang Once More, I Saw At Last Its Meaning And Its Place; Not The Blind Passion Of The Brooding Past, But Mother -- The World's Mother -- Come At Last, To Love As She Had Never Loved Before -- To Feed And Guard And Teach The Human Race.