ABSTRACT
It will be seen that the scope of this little work (which does not reach 200 pages) is very wide. In chapters headed "The Structure. of Communities " and "The Binding Force of Human Communities," the functions of religious systems and of various forms of government are discussed, and it is shown that the main object of both is to guide the individual into the most progressive modes of action, to control the self-seeking which militates against cohesion, and to hold in check crime and vice of all kinds which, according to our author, are caused by the "evil action of mind" on human instinct. Into all this we cannot enter, nor follow the author in her examination into the merits of the Utilitarian and Intuitive Systems of Ethics, and pronouncement in favour of the latter as best calculated to secure the needful restraint.
