This is the final justification of the moral value of science and art. It is because through them wants are inter-connected, unified and socialized, that they are, when all is said and done, the preëminent moral means. And if we do not readily recognize them in this garb, it is because we have made of them such fixed things, that is, such abstractions, by placing them outside the movement of human life. INDEX. Absolute--and relative Ethics, according to Spencer 72. Accountability--See responsibility. Activity--human, the subject-matter of ethics 1 ff. --the object of desire 21 ff. --the standard of pleasure 45; 50. --equals exercise of function 101. --opposed to mere possession 209; 215; 218; 220. --two sides of 219. --see freedom. Æsthetic feelings--may be moral 199. --see art. Agent--moral, one capable of acting from ideas 3. --see person. Alexander, S.--quoted: on idea of sum of pleasures 46. --referred to: 9; 46; 77; 111; 134; 158; 165; 202; 216; 221; 227. Altruism--how identified with egoism 59. --reconciled, by Spencer, with egoism 70 ff. --conflicts, at present, with egoism 76. --older moralists termed benevolence 195. --not necessarily moral 107. --not disguised selfishness 109. --may equal charity 125. Amusements--moral nature of 133. Approbation--nature of 161. Aristotle--quoted: on pleasure 18; on pleasure and character 29; on the mean 136. --referred to: 31. Art (and Science)--nature of interest in 111. --distinction of fine and useful 112. --interest in, why moral 113 ff. --interest in, really social 118 ff. --life an, 120. --essentially dynamic 126. Asceticism--means formalism 94. --element of truth in 95. --results when interest is excluded 106. Aspiration--involved in morality 213; 222. Autonomy--Kant's conception of justified 149. Badness--of environment a factor in right action 176; 224. --its source and factors 214. --its relation to goodness 223. --potential and actual 223. --of good people 232. Bain, A.--quoted: that pleasure is a self-evident criterion 16; his definition of utilitarianism 53; on obligation 140; 141. --referred to: 17; 66; 227. Barratt--quoted: that all pleasure is individual 14. Baseness--why badness becomes 219. Benevolence--see altruism. Bentham, J.--quoted: pleasure both criterion and motive 15; self-evident criterion 16; all motives good 34 ff.; hedonistic calculus 36 ff.; identity of individual and general pleasure 57 ff.; influence of law 59. --referred to: 53. Birks--referred to: 66. Blackie, J. S.--referred to: 66. Bradley, F. H.--quoted: on pleasure and desire 21; scientific interest not necessarily social 122; on merely individual conscience 189. --referred to: 25; 26; 42; 48; 54; 91; 124; 134; 165; 221. Browning, R.--referred to: 111.