ABSTRACT
Most readers would dislike to admit without coercion that a law was adequate which obliged them to erase from literature all works except treatises on natural science, history, and statistics. There it will appear in its genuine character pure and undefiled. Religious, esthetic, and ethical judgments, having grown up in the course of evolution, by means that the people can very plausibly divine, of course may be stripped off from the main stem of intelligence and leave that undisturbed. Influence on physical well-being or survival is his implied criterion of the rank of mental action. The survivors constitute the right way of thinking. The future of the Mind’s development is thus mapped out in advance by the way in which the lines of pleasure and pain run. The interests precede the outer relations noticed.
