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This book deals historically with the private and the moral consciousness in man. It falls into two parts. The first deals with custom, i.e. the rules of conduct which are generally recognised in any society. The most important of these are discussed under different heads, e.g. laws of marriage and the position of women; class relations, caste, slavery and free labour; the laws of war; commercial and private property; methods of providing for the poor. In each case the attempt is made to sketch in outline the changes encountered as we pass from the lowest savagery to contemporary civilisation. The second volume deals with the ideas lying at the root of custom, i.e. principally in religion on its ethical side. Primitive religions are briefly examined, and the principal ethical features of the great world religions are passed in review. The ethical doctrines of Confucius and of ancient and modern moral philosophy are next dealt with, and the work concludes with certain inferences as to the general trend of ethical development.
A New Study of Rousseau.
Jean Jacques Rousseau
A New Criticism.
By FREDERIKA MACDONALD,
Author of “Iliad of the East,”
“Studies in the France of Voltaire and Rousseau.”
With Numerous Illustrations, Facsimiles, &c.