The method of the New Morality, then, will be to minimise formulæ, and (except as illustrations) to use them sparely; and to bring children up--and so indirectly all citizens--in such conditions of abounding life and health that their sympathies, overflowing naturally to those around, will cause them to realise in the strongest way their organic part in the great whole of society--and this not as an intellectual theory, so much as an abiding consciousness and foundation-fact of their own existence. Make this the basis of all teaching. Make them realise--by all sorts of habit and example--that to injure or deceive others is to injure themselves--that to help others somehow satisfies and fortifies their own inner life. Let them learn, as they grow up, to regard all human beings, of whatever race or class, as ends in themselves--never to be looked upon as mere things or chattels to be made use of. Let them also learn to look upon the animals in the same light--as beings, they too, who are climbing the great ladder of creation--beings with whom also we humans have a common spirit and interest. And let them learn to respect _themselves_ as worthy and indispensable members of this great Body. Thus will be established a true Morality--a morality far more searching, more considerate of others, more adaptive and more genuine than that of the present day--a morality, we may say, of common-sense. For it may indeed be said that Morality--taking a downright and almost physiological view of it--is simply _abundance of life_. That is, that when a man has so abounding and vital an inner nature that his sympathies and activities overflow the margin of his own petty days and personal advantage, he is by that fact entering the domain of morality. Before that time and while limited to the personal organism, the creative life in each being is either non-moral like that of the animals, or simply selfish like that of the immature man; but when it overflows this limit it necessarily becomes social, and moves to the support and consideration of the neighbour. Having formerly found its complete activity in the sustentation of the personal self it now spreads its helpful energies into the lives of the other selves around. Altruism, in fact, in its healthy forms, is the overflow of abounding vitality. It is a morality without a code, and happily free from limiting formulæ.[49]