ABSTRACT
Western civilisation in both Christian and competitive; and it seems bootless to ask whether its course is more substantially under the guidance of the one than of the other of these two institutional norms. Both the Christian morality and the morality of pecuniary competition are intimately involved in the occidental scheme of life. If Christian morality and pecuniary competition are the outgrowth of the same or similar lines of habituation, there should presumably be no incompatibility or discrepancy between them. In the light of modern science the principles of Christian morality or of pecuniary competition must, like any other principles of conduct, be taken simply as prevalent habits of thought. But the two principles named bear immediately on the morals of Christianity; they are, indeed, the spiritual capital with which the Christian movement started out, and they are still the characteristics by force of which it survives.
