But if Morality be based on Evolution we can at once
define what is "Right" and what is "Wrong". That is Right which
subserves Evolution; that is Wrong which antagonises it. Or in other
words, for those of us who believe that God's method for this world is
the evolutionary: that is Right which co-operates with His Will; that is
wrong which works against it. "Revelation" is an attempt to state this
at any given time; "Intuition" is the result of successful attempts
to do this; "Utility" is the application of observed results of
happiness and misery which flow from obedience to this, or disregard
thereof.
Evolution is the unfolding and manifestation of life-energies, the
unfolding of the capacities of consciousness, the manifestation of these
ever-increasing capacities in ever-improving and more plastic forms.
The primary truth of Morality, as of Religion and of Science, is the
Unity of Life. One Life ever unfolding in endless varieties of forms; the
essence of all beings is the same, the inequalities are the marks of the
stage of its unfoldment.
When we base Morality on Evolution, we cannot have, it is obvious, one
cut and dry rule for all. Those who want cut and dry rules must go to
their Scriptures for them, and even then, as the rules in the Scriptures
are contradictory--both as between Scriptures and within any given
Scripture--they must call in the help of Intuition and Utility in the
making of their code, in their selective process.
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