ABSTRACT
The conduct of lowly organized creatures is broadly contrasted with the conduct of highly organized creatures in having its successive portions feebly connected. Moral conduct differs from immoral conduct in the same manner and in a like degree. Clearly conduct which, being unrestrained, runs into great and incalculable oscillations, therein differs from restrained conduct of which, by implication, the oscillations fall within narrower limits. If the conduct is the best possible on every occasion, it follows that as the occasions are endlessly varied the acts will be endlessly varied to suit—the heterogeneity in the combinations of motions will be extreme. Indefiniteness accompanies incoherence in conduct that is little evolved; and throughout the ascending stages of evolving conduct there is an increasingly definite co-ordination of the motions constituting it. Evolution in conduct considered under its moral aspect, is, like all other evolution, toward equilibrium. There is an entire correspondence between moral evolution and evolution as physically defined.
