ABSTRACT
The process of ethical revolution is a genuine process of discovery, a genuine unveiling, a disclosing of values; indeed, on the other side there is always at the same time a loss of values, a forgetting of them, a vanishing. The great ethical leaders come into evidence: the spiritual heroes, prophets, founders of religions—the champions of ideas. Inevitably the forward-looking, constructive, inquiring and measuring tendency confronts the backward-looking and merely speculative tendency. Principles are entities which are dependent only upon themselves, but which other things depend upon. It is perfectly clear how deductions can be drawn from principles, once they are given. The primary emotional consciousness of value, where it exists at all and in so far as it is present, cannot, to one's liking, agree or not agree with the principle, as is the case with disposition and action.
