Show the basis of ethics I 1 absolute idealism and naturalism are both bolh in perplexity as to the source of ethical ideas though in different aliffi rent ways granting tile tho unity of existence and that all thins things aro are the expression of movement originated sus tallied and consummated in ili tile the MAUI mani of tile the absolute liow how can there be an ought applicable to the higher stages of evolution how can there bs be any tiling thing but tile the inevitable on the iho other side 0 granting that pleasure and pain are our two great masters how can man mail do more than guide himself by an estimate ot of his best b e st chances under the conditions of existence which he must accept both show themselves insufficient to provide such a philo philosophy tophy of the self con life swayed by the imperative of moral law man is to himself the greatest mystery in ili tile the universia uni versea mystery destined to break up philosophical theories in our day as in tile tha pasts past yet must we go on oil constructing construct ino 0 and reconstructing for only thus can call the progress be secured which is the condition of intellectual existence prof henry calderwood in new francel lon review |