ETHICS AND MORALS
Human being since time immemorial has been subjected to certain behavioural pattern and governance by a set of ethical and moral standards. However, ethics and morality are sine qua nons for a civilised and normative society. It is for the human being to determine if he is speaking of ethical or moral acts as under the aspect of ethics or morality, as an act in its species, or as an act in a certain state of time, space, and situation. In the work of Thomas Huxley , the practise of that which is ethically best—what we call goodness or virtue—iinvolves a course of conduct that, in all respects, is opposed to that which leads to success in the cosmic struggle for existence. In place of ruthless self-assertion it demands self-restraint; in place of thrusting aside, or treading down, all competitors, it requires that the individual shall not merely respect, but shall help his fellows; its influence is directed, not so much to the survival of the fittest, as to the fitting of as many ...