ABSTRACT
Degree of stratification is an unresisted complexity, while a synthesis of opposites is a conquest over opposing values. The laws of stratification hold among values, but so many more complex structures are built over them, that they are almost concealed from view. Not only the general criteria of grade showed themselves to be inadequate, as clues to the order of rank, but even the general view of the table of values, which discloses quite other refinements of difference in grade. The reason is contained in the fact that the order of rank does not simply concern the principle of valuational height, but involves in itself a second decisive factor valuational strength, or weight. Within the wider ethical realm it characterizes only one stage: the relation of goods and situations to the moral values. The one naturally thinks at first of the laws of stratification.
