Sexual ethics / by August Forel ; translated from the German by Ashley Dukes.

  • Auguste Forel
Date:
1908
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Credit: Sexual ethics / by August Forel ; translated from the German by Ashley Dukes. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    and posterity in particular, it is directed to- wards false codes of honour, local patriotism, family exclusiveness, private property, pre- tended divine commandments, and so forth. The Earth is small, and human intercourse becomes more extensive every year; the union of all civilised peoples into a single great civilised community is inevitable. Ethics must, therefore, as far as reason permits, be directed towards this object. We require animals and plants in Order to live, so that we can further extend our altruism at most to a moderate protection of other animals, if we are to avoid injury to our own race. We may remark in passing that the altruism of many lovers of animals, who prefer their favourite pets to human beings and to the social welfare, is typical of the exclusiveness and stupidity of misdirected impulses of sympathy. Morality must therefore in the future con- sist of a common social impulse—it must itself become social. This impulse must over- throw not only egotism, but also the ex-
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