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 a large part of Society accepts an ideal of internal competitive, and external militant, struggle, it cannot adopt the code of morals accepted by those whose ideal is co-operative progress both within and without each separate society. The ideals of conflict and of peace can never become identical, and while these two ideals, the ideal of the past and the ideal of the future, struggle for mastery in the present, ethics must remain in the transitory state in which we find it to-day. We are in the midst of one of those epochs during which the race passes from one stage of evolution to another. Happy those who, in the swirl of conflicting tendencies, can recognise, and aid in the development of, those that are being born, amid those which die.