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FOOTNOTES:
[19] P. Kropotkin, _Mutual Aid a Factor in Evolution_; Bagehot, _Physics
and Politics_.
[20] Eastman, _Indian Boyhood_.
[21] _The Origin and Growth of the Moral Instinct_, Chs. II.-V.
[22] _Ibid._, p. 99.
CHAPTER IV
GROUP MORALITY--CUSTOMS OR MORES
We have seen how the natural forces of instinct lead to activities which
elevate men and knit them together. We consider next the means which
society uses for these purposes, and the kind of conduct which goes
along with the early forms of society's agencies. The organization of
early society is that of group life, and so far as the individual is
merged in the group the type of conduct may be called "group morality."
Inasmuch as the agencies by which the group controls its members are
largely those of custom, the morality may be called also "customary
morality." Such conduct is what we called at the opening of the previous
chapter "the second level." It is "ethical" or "moral" in the sense of
conforming to the _ethos_ or _mores_ of the group.
§ 1. MEANING, AUTHORITY, AND ORIGIN OF CUSTOMS
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