Chapter V
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CHAPTER V
Changes of morals chiefly in the proportionate value attached to different virtues Military, civic, and intellectual virtues The mediæval type Modifications introduced by Protestantism Bossuet and Louis XIV. Persecution.—Operations at childbirth.—Usury Every great religion and philosophic system produces or favours a distinct moral type Variations in moral judgments Complexity of moral influences of modern times.—The industrial type Qualified by other influences Unnecessary suffering Goethe's exposition of modern morals Morals hitherto too much treated negatively Possibility of an over-sensitive conscience Increased sense of the obligations of an active life