The prize in question is to be won in this life, if anywhere; and must therefore be more or less describable 39 What then is it? 40 Unless it is describable it cannot be a moral end at all 41 As a consideration of the _raison d'etre_ of all moral systems will show us 42 The value of the prize must be verifiable by positive methods 43 And be verifiably greater, beyond all comparison, than that of all other prizes 44 Has such a prize any real existence? This is our question 44 It has never yet been answered properly 45 And though two sets of answers have been given it, neither of them are satisfactory 45 I shall deal with these two questions in order 47 CHAPTER III. SOCIOLOGY AS THE FOUNDATION OF MORALITY. The positive theory is that the health of the social organism is the real foundation of morals 49 But social health is nothing but the personal health of all the members of the society 51 It is not happiness itself, but the negative conditions that make happiness for all 51 Still less is social health any _high_ kind of happiness 54 It can only be maintained to be so, by supposing 55 Either, that all kinds of happiness are equally _high_ that do not interfere with others 55 Or, that it is only a _high_ kind of happiness that can be shared by all 56 Both of which suppositions are false 57 The conditions of social health are a moral end only when we each feel a personal delight in maintaining them 58 In this case they will supply us with a _small portion_ of the moral aid needed 59 But this case is not a possible one 60 There is indeed the natural impulse of sympathy that might tend to make it so 61 But this is counterbalanced by the corresponding impulse of selfishness 63 And this impulse of sympathy itself is of very limited power 63 Except under very rare conditions 63 The conditions of general happiness are far too vague to do more than very slightly excite it 64 Or give it power enough to neutralise any personal temptation 66