ression. He was, I suppose,
too much absorbed in contemplating the proposition he combats to
observe, or, at least, to attach any weight to, the propositions which
accompany it. But I am sorry he did not perceive the mischief he was
likely to do me by spreading this one-sided statement.

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I pass now to the particular question at issue--not the "parentage for
morals," but the parentage of moral sentiments. In describing my view on
this more special doctrine, Mr. Hutton has similarly, I regret to say,
neglected the data which would have helped him to draw an approximately
true outline of it. It cannot well be that the existence of such data
was unknown to him. They are contained in the _Principles of
Psychology_; and Mr. Hutton reviewed that work when it was first
published.[34] In a chapter on the Feelings, which occurs near the end
of it, there is sketched out a process of evolution by no means like
that which Mr. Hutton indicates; and had he turned to that chapter he
would have seen that his description of the genesis of moral sentiments
out of organized experiences is not such a one as I should have given.
Let me quote a passage from that chapter.

"Not only are those emotions which form the immediate stimuli to
actions, thus explicable; but the like explanation applies to the
emotions that leave the subject of them comparatively passive: as,
for instance, the emotion produced by beautiful scenery. The
gradually increasing complexity in the groups of sensations and
ideas co-ordinated, ends in the co-ordination of those vast
aggregations of them which a grand landscape excites and suggests.
The infant taken into the midst of mountains, is totally unaffected
by them; but is delighted with the small group of attributes and
relations presented in a toy. The child can appreciate, and be
pleased with, the more complicated relations of household objects
and localities, the garden, the field, and the street. But it is
only in youth and mature age, when individual things and small
assemblages of them have become familiar and automatically
cognizable, that those immense assemblages which landscapes present
can be adequately grasped, and the highly aggregated states of
consciousness produced by them, experienced. Then, however, the
various minor groups of states that have been in earlier days