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CHAPTER
V
The Natural History of Morals
186
The moral sentiment in Europe at present is perhapsas
subtle,belated,diverse,sensitive, and
refined, as
the "Science
of Morals" belongingthereto is recent,initial, awkward, and
"
coarse-fingered: an interestingcontrast, which sometimes
becomes incarnate and obvious in the very person of a
moralist. Indeed, the expression,"Science of Morals" is,
in respect to what is designatedthereby,far too presumptuous
^which and counter to "
good taste,
is always a foretaste
of more modest expressions Ọne ought to avow with
the utmost fairness what is still necessary here for a long
time, what is alone proper for the present: namely, the
collection of material,the comprehensivesurvey and classification
of an immense domain of delicate sentiments of
worth,and distinctions of worth,which live,grow, propagate,
and
"
perish and
perhaps attempts to give a clear idea of
the recurring and more common forms of these livingcrystallisations
preparationfor a theoryof types of morality.
To be sure, people have not hitherto been so modest. All
the
philosophers, with a pedanticand ridiculous seriousness,
demanded of themselves something very much higher,more
pretentious,and ceremonious,when they concerned themy4