Ethics, General and Special

ETHICS. GENERAL AND SPECIAL. PREFACE: The whole trouble with all Modem Philosophy is rank aub jectivism, and subjectivism is, pcrhaps, most destructive in the domain of Ethics. Protestantism and modern Philosophy grow on the same tree, and the root of the tree is subjectivism. This fact accounts for all the atheism, all the materialism, all the socialism in the world. It is to blame for all the irreligion, all the injustice, all the tyranny now afflicting large and small nations; and the World War did not settle matters, the Peace Conference, in spite of all its good intentions, practically left things where it found them. Evils persevere as long as their causes and till men think right, till Modern Philosophy is killed from mens minds, till Scholastic Philosophy gets everywhere the hearing it deserves, these evils, far from being eliminated, will prosper, grow and multiply. No body of men can regulate mankind, unless mankind itself is amenable to direction, unIess mankind entertains correct notions regarding God, the Soul, and the nature of authority. Laws are no better than the men who make them, and laws are little worth, unless subjects are minded to sec and obey divinity in them. It is awfully hard, in fact it is impossible, to pcrsuade anybody to think that any single man or any coIlection of men, whether a majority or a minority, possess independent right over the free mills of other men, and are empowered to make and exmutc laws on their own initiative. Originally published in 1920. Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. We are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original text and artwork.