ABSTRACT
The orthodox theory holds that a public opinion constitutes a moral judgment on a group of facts. It suggests that in the present state of education, a public opinion is primarily a moralized and codified version of the facts. The chapter argues that the pattern of stereotypes at the center of codes largely determines what group of facts the authors shall see, and in what light they shall see them. The codes are probably founded on true expectations to this extent, that when a man adopts a certain code he tends to exhibit the kind of human nature which the code demands. At the core of every moral code there is a picture of human nature, a map of the universe, and a version of history. To human nature, in a universe, after a history, the rules of the code apply.
