Show A HIGHEE MOBALITY As there Is higher criticism which to some Is a siumbllngbl but to the Intelligent Is a rock giving a wider and truer view so there Is a higher morality moral-ity ityThe course of ordinary ethical teaching teach-ing is Indeednot always1 clear To Illustrate Il-lustrate There Is a natural untruthfulness untruth-fulness which no one regards as slnfuL Every weak animal that oseaps death by deceiving the pursuers acts the lie God has taught H So lIttle children lu their weakness are natural liars We do not allgmatizo the baby as a sinner Wo teach him that his is an offense and that he will sin if Icnowlng the offense ho lies again For the adult the question In Its simplest form appears ap-pears In the old query Is It right to tell a lie to save a human life The problem becomes moro complicated when selfinterest enters as a factor of the traveler wlo to as in the story save himself from pillage betrayed his companion But after the robbers were gone he reimbursed the sufferer twice over remarking that while the latter I had only ten pounds to JOHN lie himself would have lost ten times that sum had ho been searched I We call this not quite rightly Jesuitical Jesu-itical But to take up now the realposl Uon of the Jesuit his error Mies in the assumption that the good of his feet F represents the highest good In BO far as he errs Jn this his moral code lacks a broad support If Instead of one church party we put the human race 1 ore we not Justlllcd In saying that what without a doubt conduces to tbo advantage advan-tage of the race cannot be essentially sinful 1 Of course there must be no doubt and since human fallibility Is augmented aug-mented by sclllsh considerations no 1 ono man < an be an unbiasedarbiter of ri his own rectitude Nor may any one people plume Itself on Joins evil that good may come of Itf 1 for It may err in Interpreting the work it accomplishes lint If by general consent the result is good as far as It 1 Is humanly possible T to decide what then Certainly as science has taught us 7 L the greit principle which has been carried out Jn the advancement of humanity j k hu-manity ban always been that of the 4J greatest good of the greatest number Whatever has OPIMJSCC this has had to yield This ift i not an entirely new doctrine doc-trine It IH In truth a curious historical accident that the same principle was enunciated In India more than two thousand years ago And Ibis I believe be-lieve Is nol generally known England I Eng-land and the Higher Morallly by Prof Washbufn Hopkins in the January Janu-ary Forum |