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 806 MOOSE WOOD MORAL PHILOSOPHY to the varied nature of the surrounding scenery and to the vast numbers of game, including the deer and caribou, which still frequent the pri- meval forests, Moosehead lake has for many years possessed a high reputation as a resort for tourists and sportsmen. Steamboats ply daily between Greenville on the S. extremity and Mt. Kineo, a distance of about 20 m. MOOSE WOOD. See MAPLE, vol. xi., p. 139. MOQUIS, a tribe of semi-civilized Indians in Arizona, between Ion. 110 and 111 W., and lat. 35 and 36 N., on the Little Colorado and San Juan rivers. They were among the tribes visited in 1540 by Ooronado, who apparently left sheep and other domestic animals among them, which they preserved. The Franciscans in time established missions there, but on the general rising in 1680 the Moquis killed or ex- pelled the missionaries. The viceroy of Mexico in 1723 attempted to reduce the Moquis, but failed. In 1748, however, the Franciscan Juan M. Menchero converted a number of them, with whom he founded the pueblo of Gandia. Of late years they have been peaceable, and have suffered much from the attacks of the Apaches and Navajos. They form nine families or clans, the Deer, Sand, Water, Bear, Hare, Prairie Wolf, Rattlesnake, Tobacco, and Reed Grass clans, the hereditary chief being of the Deer clan. They are an exclusively agricultural peo- ple, raising grain, vegetables, fruit, and cotton. They have some donkeys, sheep, and goats. They live in seven villages situated on bluffs from 200 to 500 ft. high, viz. : Tay wah (Tegua), Sechoinaive, Jualpi (Gualpi), Meshonganave, Shungopave (Xungopavi), and Oreybe. Their houses are, like those of New Mexico, built in terraced stories, reached by ladders, but in- ferior to them, though formerly much better than at present. They are of stone laid in mud ; the rafters are of stout poles, with other poles crossing, covered with rushes ; the floors are of earth. They knit, weave, and spin, making blankets and women's robes, which they trade with other tribes. When they first came within the jurisdiction of the United States they were estimated at about 8,000. Intercourse was for a time cut off by hostile tribes, but in 1852 the Moquis sent curious symbolical presents to the president to open the way to their towns. They were almost destroyed by smallpox in 1855-'6, and no help having been given to advance their agriculture, they lost many by famine in 1866-'7. On both these occasions they abandoned their villages and scattered among the mountains or emi- grated to their allies the Pueblos of New Mex- ico. Their population in 1 872 was pretty accu- rately fixed at 1,663, showing a great decline. They use no intoxicating drink, and the wo- men^ are virtuous. The men wear blankets and leggins of dressed skins, the women a woven tunic and a shawl or blanket. Before mar- riage the latter wear their hair in two rolls like horns at the side of the head, and after marriage in two rolls at the side of the face. The Moquis assimilate in many respects to the people of Zufii, New Mexico, their ancient allies. MORA, a N. E. county of New Mexico, bor- dering on Texas and intersected by the Cana- dian river and several of its tributaries ; area, about 5,000 sq. m. ; pop. in 1870, 8,056. The W. part is mountainous. The chief produc- tions in 1870 were 44,115 bushels of wheat, 57,349 of Indian corn, 27,314 of oats, 41,580 Ibs. of wool, and 917 tons of hay. There were 678 horses, 808 mules and asses, 3,328 milch cows, 2,328 working oxen, 3,718 other cattle, 30,561 sheep, and 4,827 swine ; 4 flour mills, 1 distil- lery, and 1 woollen mill. Capital, Mora, MORADABAD, a town of British India, capital of a district of the same name, in the division of Rohilcund in the Northwestern Provinces, on the right bank of the Ramgunga, 100 m. N. E. of Delhi; pop. about 60,000. It is dilapidated, and even the great central thoroughfare has lost its former cleanly appearance. It has a large market place, used as a bazaar, and an extensive commerce in sugar, cotton, wheat, and other articles. MORALES, Luis de, a Spanish painter, born in Badajoz in 1509, died there in 1586. Either from his constant choice of sacred subjects or (less probably) from the merits of his work, he received the surname of el Divino, the divine. His pictures were nearly all heads, generally of Christ or the Virgin ; some au- thorities believe that there are no instances of his painting the figure at full length. His Ecee Homo and Mater Dolorosa are the best types of his paintings. In spite of his acknowledged ability, the prices he received for his works are said not to have been enough to compen- sate him for the great labor and time he spent upon them ; and he lived in the greatest want until his old age, when he was supported by Philip II. His chief works are at Toledo, Val- ladolid, Burgos, and Granada. MORAL PHILOSOPHY, or Ethics (Lat. mos, Gr. f]dos, manner, practice), the science of duty ; the principles which prescribe what ought to take place, and the reasons why it should take place, in human conduct and actions. The ancient Greeks divided philosophy into logic, physics, and ethics : the first treated the uni- versal and necessary forms of thought ; the second, so much of the subject matter of thought as pertains to material nature ; and the third, the whole nature and activity of free and intelligent beings. More precisely defined, ethics is that division of practical philosophy comprehending the doctrines of the right in human life, and is distinguished from polity and aesthetics, which embrace respectively the doctrines of the expedient and the beautiful or noble. Or it may be defined as natural in dis- tinction from civil jurisprudence, treating of the relations, rights, and duties by which the members of universal society are by the law of nature under obligation toward God, them- selves,- and each other. Ethics regards mental dispositions ; jurisprudence, outward acts. The