ABSTRACT
The process of learning can only be by direct experience or by 'inter-learning', that is the assimilation of the observed experience of others until it becomes a part of personal experience. All moral ideas have their origin in reason, i.e. in the idea of a possible self-perfection to be attained by the moral agent. The law of gravity does not prevent men from flying. Social determinism, with its emphasis on the environmental, irrational, and subconscious forces which encompass him, often standing in the way of intelligent and purposive direction, is a corrective to false optimism, or fatalistic pessimism, not a proof that he is necessarily the plaything of blind forces. The elemental need of sex, psychology reveals as a matter of great complexity in its manifestation, and anthropology shows to lead to an extreme variety of practice and institution.
