Moralists Are Not Immoral

It is desirable that as few people as possible should reflect upon morals, and consequently it is very desirable that morals should not someday become interesting. But let us not be afraid. Things still remain today as they have always been. I see no one in Europe who has an idea of the fact that philosophising concerning morals might be conducted in a dangerous, captitious and ensnaring manner. No new thought. Nothing of the nature of a finer tuning or better expression of an old thought. Not even a proper history of what has previously been thought on the subject. An impossible literature unless one knows how to leaven it with some mischief. In effect, the old English vice called Kant, which