This, too, is taught by all social intercourse, and, therefore, an acute German psychologist has set up the formula," All manners are moral,"[1] because they all imply a subjection of the personal will of the individual to the general will of those who surround him, as expressed in usage and custom.
[Footnote 1: "Alle Sitten sind sittlich." Lazarus, _Ursprung der Sitte_, S.5, quoted by Roskoff.

I hardly need mention that our word _morality_, from _mos_, means by etymology, simply what is customary and of current usage.

The moral man is he who conforms himself to the opinions of the majority.

This is also at the basis of Robert Browning's definition of a people: "A people is but the attempt of many to rise to the completer life of one" (_A Soul's Tragedy_).] Even the religion which demands bloody sacrifices, which forces its votaries to futile and abhorrent rites, is at least training its adherents in the virtues of obedience and renunciation, in endurance and confidence.
But concerning American religions I need not have recourse to such a questionable vindication.

They held in them far nobler elements, as is proved beyond cavil by the words of many of the earliest missionaries themselves.