Show ON MORALITY Instructive Lecture Delivered By Prof Stewart Lnst Night Professor Stewart of the Utah university uni-versity interested a fair sized audience audi-ence last night in Unity club rooms on the subject of the Science of Conduct Con-duct and Formal Morality He opened with the assertion of his belief that the moral progress of the race has not kept pace with its material ma-terial and intellectual progress The subject proper was progess a short outline of the different modes of thought and the formation of ideas together to-gether with an explanation of the analytic ana-lytic and synthetic methods Many people said the professor believed be-lieved that the world was put together in its present form like a machine but the scientist recognizes that it has grown slowly and as there has been great changes in the physical so has there been in the psychical realm The professor stated that one kind of mortality is that of formal mortality mortal-ity the mortality socalled that conforms con-forms to forms and rituals This kind had largely predominated in the past and does to a great extent in the present pres-ent system of conduct I was the punishment and reward theory where a man is good simply for the bliss he expects to get or the torture he hopes Ito ito I-to escape This method is good perhaps per-haps in aiding to form habits of being good but still there is danger when the individual finds out that his system does not rest on a true basis he is apt to throw off all the habits engendered roy i When he loses faith in his established system loses the hope of the reward or the fear of the punishment he is apt to throw off all restraint and rush to extremes ex-tremes The forms are useful as props or crutches to individuals and they should not be taken suddenly away but the individual hould be taught to get along without them The church is partly responsible for this formal morality mor-ality but still the educational meth sti alty and I ods in vogue are equally dogmatic formal as are many of the methods of worship We are today in intellectual intellec-tual slavery as well as in spiritual slavery slav-ery One great moral problem that this generation will have to solve the professor pro-fessor thought is the problem of how to justly distribute the fruits of human hu-man labor I is a hard problem but he thought the generation would be equal to it The true system o morality he said is the one where selfreliance enters where Ruskins precepts are followed That is where men are not only good but also love goodness not only true but love truth not only are wise but love wisdom He made a strong plea for the proper mae education of children and recited some of the influences that tend to form and misform a childs character Among these influences were prenatal influences and false educational methods meth-ods The child he said is the fruit of all the past and the seed of all al the future and he urged that the home circle should be made and kept pure that the child might be created and kept pure |