life, and shining forth with inscrutable significance from all eyes that see the sun!

This is a morality which knows and values only the precious species that gave it birth; whose characteristic — reason — it makes the condition under which a being may be an object of moral regard.

By this rough path, then, — indeed, per fas et nefas (by fair means and by foul), Kant reaches the second form in which he expresses the fundamental principle of his Ethics: “Act in such a way that you at all times treat mankind, as much in your own person, as in the person of every one else, not only as a Means, but also as an End.” Such a statement is a very artificial and roundabout way of saying: “Do not consider yourself alone, but others also;” this in