[77] v. Hartmann, _Phaenom. des Sittl. Bewusztseins_, 73. [78] Lazarus in _Ztsft. fuer Voelkerpsy._, I, 439. [79] _Human Faculty_, 216. [80] Wilkins, _Mod. Hinduism_, 195. [81] Wilkins, _Mod. Hinduism_, 317. [82] Hearn, _Japan_, 11. [83] _Ibid._, 16. [84] _Ibid._, 391. [85] _Ibid._, 199. [86] _Ibid._, 191. [87] Hearn, _Japan_, 107, 187, 411. [88] Williams, _Middle Kingdom_; Smith, _Chinese Characteristics_. [89] Nivedita, _Web of Indian Life_, 150. CHAPTER II CHARACTERISTICS OF THE MORES Introduction.--The mores have the authority of facts.--Whites and blacks in southern society.--The mores are unrecorded.-- Inertia and rigidity of the mores.--Persistency of the mores.-- Persistency against new religion.--Roman law.--Effects of Roman law on later mores.--Variability of the mores.--The mores of New England.--Revolution.--The possibility of modifying the mores.--Russia.--Emancipation in Russia and in the United States.--Arbitrary change in the mores.--The case of Japan.-- The case of India.--The reforms of Joseph II.--Adoption of the mores of another age.--What changes are possible.--Dissent from the mores. Group orthodoxy.--Retreat and isolation to start new mores.--Social policy.--Degenerate and evil mores.--The correction of aberrations in the mores.--The mores of advance and decline; cases.--The Greek temper in prosperity.--Greek pessimism.--Greek degeneracy.--Sparta.--The optimism of advance and prosperity.--Antagonism between an individual and the mores of the group.--Antagonism of earlier and later mores.--Antagonism between groups in respect to mores.-- Missions and mores.--Missions and antagonistic mores.-- Modification of the mores by agitation.--Capricious interest of the masses.--How the group becomes homogeneous.--Syncretism.-- The art of administering society.