CHAPTER I

[1] Joseph Butler: Sermon VII, edited by Gladstone, p. 114. Cf. also Sermon X, on Self-Deceit.

[2] Nietsche: Beyond Good and Evil, translated by Helen Zimmern, p. 174.

[3] Edmund Burke: A Vindication of Natural Society, Preface, pp. 4, 5. (Boston, 1806.)

[4] The classic discussion of the whole matter is to be found in Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics, Book I, Chapters I-VI, translated by J. E. C. Welldon. Cf. also Fr. Paulsen: System of Ethics, Book II, Chapters I, II, translated by Frank Thilly; G. H. Palmer: The Nature of Goodness, Chapters I, II; and W. James: The Moral Philosopher and the Moral Life, in his Will to Believe.

[5] The issue is presented clearly and briefly in Paulsen: Op. cit., Book II, Chapter II, and in James's Principles of Psychology, Vol. II, pp. 549-559.

[6] Nietsche: Op. cit., p. 107.

[7] Huxley: Evolution and Ethics and Other Essays, pp. 81-82. The first two essays contained in this volume, the Prolegomena, and the Romanes Lecture, contain a very interesting study of the relation of morality to nature.

[8] Huxley: Op. cit., p. 13.

[9] G. K. Chesterton: Napoleon of Notting Hill, p. 291. The whole book is a brilliant satire, intended to show that all of the heroic sentiments and virtues depend on war and local pride.

[10] Nietsche: Op. cit., pp. 59, 163, 176, 223, 235, 237, 122.

[11] Chesterton: Heretics, and Orthodoxy.

[12] Plato: Protagoras, p. 322 (marginal pagination), and passim; translated by Jowett.

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