ndred years old.[2279]

+728. Moral anarchy.+ The antagonism between a virtue policy and a
success policy is a constant ethical problem. The Renaissance in Italy
shows that although moral traditions may be narrow and mistaken, any
morality is better than moral anarchy. Moral traditions are guides which
no one can afford to neglect. They are in the mores and they are lost in
every great revolution of the mores. Then the men are morally lost.
Their notions, desires, purposes, and means become false, and even the
notion of crime is arbitrary and untrue. If all try the policy of
dishonesty, the result will be the firmest conviction that honesty is
the best policy. The mores aim always to arrive at correct notions of
virtue. In so far as they reach correct results the virtue policy proves
to be the only success policy.

[2216] _Globus_, LXXXIII, 374.

[2217] Holtzmann, _Indische Sagen_, I, 170.

[2218] Holtzmann, _Indische Sagen_, I, 105.

[2219] _Ibid._, 23, 37, 119.

[2220] Monier-Williams, _Brahmanism and Hinduism_, 216.

[2221] Hartmann, _Ztsft. d. V. f. Volkskunde_, XI, 247.

[2222] _Od._, XIX, 394.

[2223] Lichtenberger, _Nibelungen_, 334, 354.

[2224] Uhland, _Dichtung und Sage_, 232.

[2225] Kugler, _Kreuzzuege_, 52.

[2226] Eicken, _Mittelalterl. Weltanschauung_, 656.

[2227] Symonds, _Renaissance_, III, 320.

[2228] _Ibid._, I, 390-405.

[2229] Burckhardt, _Renaissance_, 458.

[2230] Burckhardt, _Renaissance_, 465.

[2231] _Ibid._, 490.

[2232] Lea, _Sacerd. Celibacy_, 364.

[2233] Symonds, _Catholic Reaction_, II, 137.

[2234] Burckhardt, 184.

[2235] _Ibid._, 267.

[2236] Burckhardt, _Renaissance_, 268-271.

[2237] Symonds, _Renaissance_, I, 423.

[2238] Gauthiez, _Lorenzaccio_, 71.

[2239] Creighton, _Hist. Essays and Reviews_, 336.

[2240] _La Renaissance_, 377.

[2241] _Hist. Essays and Reviews_, 138.

[2242] Symonds, _Renaissance_, I, 52.

[2243] _Ibid._, 53.

[2244] Gauthiez, _Lorenzaccio_, 92.

[2245] Symonds, _Catholic Reaction_, II, 392.

[2246] Symonds, _Renaissance_, I, 416.

[2247] Symonds, _Autobiog._, I, 74.

[2248] Symonds, _Renaissance_, I, 416.

[2249] _Ibid._, 420.

[2250] _Ibid._, 420.

[2251] Gregorovius, _Lucretia Borgia_, 28.

[2252] Gauthiez, _Lorenzaccio_, 230.

[2253] Symonds, _Renaissance_, III, 467.

[2254] Symonds, _Au