reciprocal absorption is the disappearance of the natural tendencies in their original form _and the generation of moral_, i.e., _socialized interests_. It is sympathy transformed into a habitual standpoint which satisfies the demand for a standpoint which will render the person interested in foresight of all obscure consequences (_ante_, p. 262). =1. Social Interest and the Happiness of the Agent.=--We now see what is meant by a distinctively _moral_ happiness, and how this happiness is supreme in quality as compared with other satisfactions, irrespective of superior intensity and duration on the part of the latter. It is impossible to draw any fixed line between the _content_ of the moral good and of natural satisfaction. The end, the right and only right end, of man, lies in the fullest and freest realization of powers in their appropriate objects. The good consists of friendship, family and political relations, economic utilization of mechanical resources, science, art, in all their complex and variegated forms and elements. There is no separate and rival moral good; no separate empty and rival "good will." =Nature of Moral Interest and Motivation.=--Yet _the interest_ in the social or the common and progressive realization of these interests may properly be called a distinctive moral interest. The degree of actual objective realization or achievement of these ends, depends upon circumstances and accidents over which the agent has little or no control. The more happily situated individual who succeeds in realizing these ends more largely we may call more fortunate; we cannot call him morally better. The interest in all other interests, the voluntary desire to discover and promote them within the range of one's own capacities, one's own material resources, and the limits of one's own surroundings, is, however, under one's control: _it is one's moral self_. _The nature and exercise of this interest constitutes then the distinctively moral quality in all good purposes._ They are morally good not so far as objectively accomplished and possessed, but so far as cherished in the dominant affections of the person.